I would be a fool to think I understand
“If any single kind of value or evaluation has tended to survive the many tides and reversals of taste, belief and dogma, I imagine that value consists in some vague striving for truth.” B.S.
I would be a fool to think I don’t understand
I was referring to the quote in the drawing about “The American writer….” 🙂
Ben Shahn was an acutely political artist, so I imagine he would be seeking “the truth” in his work. Postmodernism doesn’t believe there is impartial truth, therefore it doesn’t exist. Of course, Marxist philosophy doesn’t think there is an impartial way of looking for the truth either, so it’s all checkmate in cultural criticism.
truth is a four-letter word. Roth used the words “american reality” and passes (subjective?) judgement.
Ben Shahn drew that “american reality” until his religious “truth” took over.
Ersatz Lascaux
I would be a fool to think I understand
“If any single kind of value or evaluation has tended to survive the many tides and reversals of taste, belief and dogma, I imagine that value consists in some vague striving for truth.” B.S.
I would be a fool to think I don’t understand
Philip Roth wrote that in the early 60s. Hard to imagine what he thinks about writing now.
The Shape of Content
(Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1956-1957)
given at Harvard University by Ben Shahn
(or so I thought)
I was referring to the quote in the drawing about “The American writer….” 🙂
Ben Shahn was an acutely political artist, so I imagine he would be seeking “the truth” in his work. Postmodernism doesn’t believe there is impartial truth, therefore it doesn’t exist. Of course, Marxist philosophy doesn’t think there is an impartial way of looking for the truth either, so it’s all checkmate in cultural criticism.
truth is a four-letter word. Roth used the words “american reality” and passes (subjective?) judgement.
Ben Shahn drew that “american reality” until his religious “truth” took over.
Hangaku Gozen
thank you for the clarification
Ersatz Lascaux
keep on pushing