At 09:00 AM 7/28/00 -0600, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>I'm not sure that artists care one way or another about philosophy...
Depends who. I many outstanding poets have shown an interest in philosophy.
What it takes is a philosophic bent of the mind. Alison mentioned Coleridge
for example: his is a classic example of applying Kant to poetry.
>I'm reading an interesting book What Painting Is by James Elkins (Routledge
>1999),
Thanks for this -- I want to check it out; the "Socratic" form of the title
sounds promising. I'd also be grateful for any other recommendations re the
philosophy of music and of visual art.
>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...
One of the many things I like about Bernstein is that he calls poetry
"minor philosophy."
Philip
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