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<body><div>Dear Pedor, </div><div><br /></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><blockquote cite="5087988b-6bc4-8326-7824-a6c0805964ea@aragon.es" type="cite" class="cite2"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">Beyond philosophical nuances, one of
the most intriguing aspects of art would concern its relationship
with the intellectual & cultural ethos of each epoch.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Art, stemming from inner drives of
almost unfathomable origins, seems to provide a compensation for
some of the absences in the daily life of citizens (a mostly urban
phenomenon).</div></blockquote><span><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><span>It seems to me that art is a specific (functionally different) communication system. </span></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><span>The "inner drives of almost unfathomable origins" play a role in the socio-genesis. but "compensation for some of the absences in the daily life of citizens" can only be explained at the above-individual (that is, sociological) level. </span></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><span><br /></span></div>Luhmann, N. (2000). Art as a Social System (Translated by Eva M. Knodt): Stanford University Press, Stanford.</span></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><span><br /></span></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><blockquote cite="5087988b-6bc4-8326-7824-a6c0805964ea@aragon.es" type="cite" class="cite2"><div class="moz-cite-prefix"><span>The observer, or listener, gets some of
the intellective/emotional contents emitted by the art producer,
and that's satisfying for the permanent search for novelty that
characterizes our species in civilized life regimes.</span></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Your polysemic use of "contrast" is
well adapted to discuss the above, I think, both in the art object
and in the receiver whole appreciation. <br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">The curious point is that the
historical evolution of art becomes a fascinating mirror of social
evolution itself. Thinking on Western art (classic, medieval,
renaissance, neoclassic, modern...), how contents and styles have
been evolved with the mentality of each epoch.... Reminding about
"media", It would echo what McLuhan was saying about means of
communication: every new media alters the psychic equilibrium and
forces a mental readaptation of the individual within the whole
communication mosaic. <br />
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Coming to our times, How far could go
the present "deconstruction" of art, seemingly reduced to
presentation of brute "novelty"?</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"> Is there a way back to art contents
satisfying the appetite for intellective/emotional contents?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">To complicate things for the worse,
some portions of "public art" seem to have been swallowed by the
superultimate "cancelation culture".</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Is there anything left uncensored of
the cultural & artistic past? <br />
</div></blockquote><span>Yes, there is the artwork itself. The communication is present for those who are able to attend.</span></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><br /></div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd">Is this relating?</div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd">Best, Loet</div><div id="x282ef576c96d4dd"><br /></div>
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