03-26-2014, 10:11 AM
(10-13-2013, 08:44 PM)milo Wrote:We've already been over this. Of course Art is %100 percent percent% objective . . .(10-13-2013, 07:13 PM)rayheinrich Wrote:You are . . . Slow to connect to sarcasm?(10-13-2013, 07:46 AM)milo Wrote: Scientific proof.that art is.objective and that some poetry is prose with line breaks. Now I just need my portable MRI . . .
Nope. It's more like: Preliminary study results show that
"13 volunteers, all faculty members and senior graduate students in English"
have similar subjective feelings and opinions. Earth-shattering.
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"Their brain activity was scanned and compared when reading literal prose such as an extract from
a heating installation manual, evocative passages from novels, easy and difficult sonnets, as well
as their favourite poetry."
"The experience of reading varies markedly between differing texts which may be, for example,
primarily informative, musical, or moving."
Not as clear cut as the headlines proclaim.
Informative:
heating installation manual
difficult sonnets
Musical:
easy sonnets
evocative passages from novels
favourite poetry
Moving:
evocative passages from novels
favourite poetry
. . .but only when he wants to be. And only when Art doesn't have any personal bias clouding his judgement. And only to those that agree, and only while they are in agreement, and . . .
. . . not every aspect of qualified evaluation of /craft/ is always completely subjective.