museum goers

quase a dar ali um saltinho.

“The world — and even the world of artists — is full of people who can go to the Louvre, walk rapidly, without so much as a glance, past rows of very interesting, though secondary, pictures, to come to a rapturous halt in front of a Titian or a Raphael — one of those that have been most popularized by the engraver’s art; then they will go home happy, not a few saying to themselves, ‘I know my museum. Just as there are people who, having once read Bossuet and Racine, fancy that they have mastered the history of literature.", Baudelaire em The Painter of Modern Life.

não está longe de ‎"os do metro percebem de autocarros?", como perguntava a apresentadora no programa de discussão pública da tv. Portugal é um país cheio de especialistas, onde me incluo, com as várias mudanças de carreira e salada de interesses. não, não percebem.



também aqui, com interesse, Art in theory, 1815-1900: an anthology of changing ideas, de Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger. (episteme- paradigma)

transcrevo: "Among the most enduring of these are the notion of beauty as a kind of dialectical product, composed both of the eternal and of the transitory, and thus necessarily associated with modernity; the idea of the artist as a type in whom the wordly and the childlike are combined; the appeals to dandyism and to artifice in the face of a tedious Naturalism; and the characterization of the prostitute as an inescapable figure in the imagery of modern society." levar isto como motto, agora, é como fazê-lo com Jesus Cristo, mas cada qual carrega as velas da sua escolha.

recupero, eufemismo para a repetição, este The abuse of beauty: aesthetics and the concept of art, de Arthur Coleman Danto.