On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:10 -0800, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/arts/design/30mind.html?scp=1&sq=Asian
> “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989”
It could be said that what makes Australian and American writing and art
different to the old European tradition is the affect that Eastern and
Asian art and aesthetics has had. Bakhtin argues that pathos is an
essential element in novels and the pathos of Eastern art seems to me to
take this up in a way that is constantly being re-thought. Pathos is
what makes us essentially human and is a line that we draw always anew
as if in one dimension and yet always open to many dimensions.
I could perhaps also add along with Hiroshima, Korea and later Vietnam
as forces which act on the thinking of Australian artists and writers.
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