Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

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--- Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>There's an exhibition of Egyptian relics currently on in
> the 
> museum, and she was using it as proof of the existence of universal
> art: 
> it had been made for the purpose of being beautiful, and beautiful
> was 
> how she found it, despite knowing almost nothing about Egyptian
> culture 
> or what the Egyptian way of life would have been.

Hmm.... fetishes have been around since the dawn of mankind... the
simple fact that someone obviously spent a great of time and effort
inspires curiousity, awe and an appreciation of the skill and labour
involved... I beleive this can exist otuside of any cultural
boundaries. 

I don't agree that those items were made simply to be beautiful
either.. unless in this case you consider a tomb to be the same as a
gallery. 

-Adrian


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