I'm not sure that artists care one way or another about philosophy...
I'm reading an interesting book What Painting Is by James Elkins (Routledge
1999), which is doing two things (at least): a) looking for a way to talk
about what actually goes on, he has gone to alchemy & its language & b) he
'interprets' (if that is the word) paintings in terms of what the canvas
reveals about the work of the body that went into its making (which makes
absolute sense to me, as that has very much become an aspect of what I
'see' when confronted by the real thing [but it might be dependent on my
love for painting since the impressionists]).
But it's why I find myself most taken by poetics such as Olson's
'Projective Verse' or Creeley's occasional comments, or bpNichol's, or Fred
Wah's or an essay on the line by Phyllis Webb, or some of Charles
bernstein's poemessays in A Poetics, or...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
And all of the time you are seeing these things she
sings 'not
loudly but with authority'
Michael Palmer
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