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Jun 25, 2021Liked by Beautiful Eccentrics

I think of this as a highly interesting article. It touches upon issues that are on the basis of art historiography, and traditional ways that certain subjects are enthroned as objective, therefore critical and others disenfranchised as not for allowing for emotional tones. Just as the example that comes to my mind is the criticisms against Giulio Carlo Argan for instance from a certain intelligence. I think that is very naïve of a certain type of art criticism to pretend to be exempt of emotional touches. The very example you gave here of the not so unemotional exchanges btw the Storr/Enwezor curatorial debate.

I think that the connection between the issue of nostalgia and the debate of modernism is very interesting. I suggest that demands further writing. And I could not stop thinking of the German literary movement of the late 18th century Sturm und Drang that sought to overthrow the cult of rationalism and gave us Goethe and Schiller, that impacted in our understanding of what art is or not in the long run, and that for me had such an overtone of nostalgia on it. I think that I, you, and most of people really, have this strong feeling of nostalgia, perhaps psychoanalysis is the key to understand it. I guess nostalgia is a basic feeling like fear, hope, etc. In Portuguese we have the word saudade that express some of this nostalgic feeling. But what a great piece you have got here Pablo, even in a simple blog post. I think this is big. It touches pressing issues. Thanks.

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Jun 25, 2021Liked by Beautiful Eccentrics

Super interesting! Thanks!

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Always clear, always interesting. Thank you.

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I think of this as a highly interesting article. It touches upon issues that are on the basis of art historiography, and traditional ways that certain subjects are enthroned as objective, therefore critical and others disenfranchised as not for allowing for emotional tones. Just as the example that comes to my mind is the criticisms against Giulio Carlo Argan for instance from a certain intelligence. I think that is very naïve of a certain type of art criticism to pretend to be exempt of emotional touches. The very example you gave here of the not so unemotional exchanges btw the Storr/Enwezor curatorial debate.

I think that the connection between the issue of nostalgia and the debate of modernism is very interesting. I suggest that demands further writing. And I could not stop thinking of the German literary movement of the late 18th century Sturm und Drang that sought to overthrow the cult of rationalism and gave us Goethe and Schiller, that impacted in our understanding of what art is or not in the long run, and that for me had such an overtone of nostalgia on it. I think that I, you, and most of people really, have this strong feeling of nostalgia, perhaps psychoanalysis is the key to understand it. I guess nostalgia is a basic feeling like fear, hope, etc. In Portuguese we have the word saudade that express some of this nostalgic feeling. But what a great piece you have got here Pablo, even in a simple blog post. I think this is big. It touches pressing issues. Thanks.

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