
PseudoPod 972: Some Say Art Deals with the Unexpected
Show Notes
- Roald Dahl, Lamb to the Slaughter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter
- Flash on the Borderlands XXIII: Grief (The Beachcomber, by L.R. Bonehill): https://pseudopod.org/2014/11/07/pseudopod-411-flash-on-the-borderlands-xxiii-grief
- Inside No. 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_No._9
Some Say Art Deals with the Unexpected
By James Dorr
ART: The quality or expression or performance of that which is pleasing to the senses; that which is raised to more than ordinary importance.
ARTIST: One who produces art.
Is art permanent? I seem to remember they said that in school, but what about music? I mean, I know there are records and tapes now, but what about before those things were invented? Would an original performance conducted by Beethoven be any less art because it hadn’t been taped? Or an opera by Verdi be called commonplace simply because it hadn’t been filmed?
Some say art deals with the unexpected. A couple of senators — you know, in Washington — say it’s obscene. I say it’s beauty.
Just that: Beauty. It takes in the rest.
The unexpected? The discovery of beauty in that which is plain. The found importance.
My wife doesn’t understand art. (Continue Reading…)