Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part I)
byThis is the first of a series of five posts exploring the issues involved in making comparisons between divine and artistic creativity.
This is the first of a series of five posts exploring the issues involved in making comparisons between divine and artistic creativity.
Being critical in the sense of articulating a negative assessment or deconstructing a work, like a piece of writing, is easy. It is easy…
The simulacra are presences or appearances that have lost their ground in reality. They are, as it is sometimes said, a copy of a…
[Spoiler Alert: If you keep reading this, you will learn how the movie ends!] The literary terms ‘protagonist’ and ‘antagonist’ are common enough. The…
~By James McCullough and Wes Vander Lugt In two previous posts, we articulated an understanding of art as a communicative creation involving three interwoven…
We devoted all of last week to reviewing John Carey’s book What Good Are The Arts?. His polemical and very entertaining prose opened up a…
Review of Chapter 7 in What Good are the Arts? by John Carey. Transpositions has been hosting reviews of each chapter of this book…