Week 9 Response: Air Guitar
Week 9 Response: Air Guitar
With the fact that finally being heartened by the author’s statement that artists should finally fess’ up and agree that what they, “do has no intrinsic value or virtue,” (202) I would also agree that the usefulness of criticism, most definitely “resides in its limitations.” This airing of this ‘dirty laundry’ so to speak justly relieves the writer from their ‘auteur and God like’ position from the Mantel of Knowledge.
As a thing is remembered, it will soon be delegated to a lifetime of consistent deterioration. The written word cannot show the true nature of the experience. What remains is only a second-class representation of the moment. While only the ‘visible artifact’ remains of text remain like mammalian bones in the desert, once the moment is deconstructed, it can only be rendered to the infinite past. This is why I believe it is important for artists to learn to see on different levels, as we most undoubtedly will ‘internalize our certain expectations.’
Would someone please respond to the last paragraph on page170?
-Allan Hill
