Website review: Arion: A Journal of Humanities and ...
TapwaterJ discovered this in Arts
•2 reviews since Aug 1, 2007
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•bu.edu/arion/Paglia.htm
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tbc rated 8 months ago- I discovered this today thanks to Mars Hill Audio. Paglia writes, "Progressives must start recognizing the spiritual poverty of contemporary secular humanism and reexamine the way that liberalism too often now automatically defines human aspiration and human happiness in reductively economic terms." Good advice, but her advice to the other side is weak: "[C]onservatives have to get over their phobia about the nude."
- laodan rated 10 months ago
- Religion and the Arts in America in Arion (Spring / Summer 2007 issue) Boston University, by CAMILLE PAGLIA
For the fine arts to revive, they must recover their spiritual center. Profaning the iconography of other people's faiths is boring and adolescent. The New Age movement, to which I belong, was a distillation of the 1960s' multicultural attraction to world religions, but it has failed thus far to produce important work in the visual arts. The search for spiritual meaning has been registering in popular culture instead through science fiction, as in George Lucas' six-film Star Wars saga, with its evocative master myth of the "Force". But technology for its own sake is never enough. It will always require supplementation through cultivation in the arts. To fully appreciate world art, one must learn how to respond to religious expression in all its forms. Art began as religion in prehistory. It does not require belief to be moved by a sacred shrine, icon, or scripture. Hence art lovers, even when as citizens they stoutly defend democratic institutions against religious intrusion, should always speak with respect of religion. Religion and the Arts in America Interesting article about the history of the arts in the US. Camille Paglia would have us believe that "Art began as religion in prehistory". But this is simply confusing apples for pears. - Religion views reality as a creation of god, or as Aristotle conceptualized, as "the first mover", for the first mover explains everything else.. - Animism was the worldview observed in all corners of the world before the emergence of religion. Animism was a knowledge based on tens of thousands of years of observation by "primitive men" of the rhythms and patterns at work around them. And this observation invariably produced the same knowledge anywhere around the world... - Modernity is the "worldview" that followed religion. The understanding of reality under modernity is that individualism and private property are the most rational form of behavior. Animism, religion and modernity are "worldviews", in other words, views of the world conceived by men as resulting from the particular conditions in a specific time-frame. The societal role of visual arts was to give visual signs for sharing the particular worldview of the time with all. But this understanding has been lost, in the West, along the unsuccessful trial by the modern avant-garde to supplant the "first degree image that our eyes are given to see" with a new, more "advanced", way to illustrate reality. For sure in our late modern times we all feel like a dire need for sharing a common worldview that is adapted to the present conditions of our knowledge production... so visual arts seem thus to have a bright future after the passing of late modernity and the emergence of the period that follows modernity (post modernity).
- Religion and the Arts in America in Arion (Spring / Summer 2007 issue) Boston University, by CAMILLE PAGLIA
