On Silhouettes, Torture by Drum Solo, and What Movies Tell Us About Culture: "The Big Combo"
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The most treacherous ground in all of criticism may be the attempt to figure out what a work of art "tells us" about the culture that produces it, especially when that culture is our own. We're comfortable with the notion that the simple, harmonious lines of Greek sculpture reflect a belief in the importance of aesthetics and beauty in life. We're happy to see in the construction of the massive gothic cathedrals of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a reflection of the idea that, as E. H. Gombrich puts it in his luminescent
On Silhouettes, Torture by Drum Solo, and What Movies Tell Us About Culture: "The Big Combo"
On Silhouettes, Torture by Drum Solo, and…
On Silhouettes, Torture by Drum Solo, and What Movies Tell Us About Culture: "The Big Combo"
The most treacherous ground in all of criticism may be the attempt to figure out what a work of art "tells us" about the culture that produces it, especially when that culture is our own. We're comfortable with the notion that the simple, harmonious lines of Greek sculpture reflect a belief in the importance of aesthetics and beauty in life. We're happy to see in the construction of the massive gothic cathedrals of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries a reflection of the idea that, as E. H. Gombrich puts it in his luminescent