tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post4998856778541817788..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Survivors of a Lost WorldBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-90729386747297553472007-10-03T16:46:00.001+00:002007-10-03T16:46:00.001+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45839084481965389292007-10-03T16:46:00.000+00:002007-10-03T16:46:00.000+00:00Hope they've hung 'em the right way up Cap'n.Hope they've hung 'em the right way up Cap'n.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-11249245850593963122007-10-03T15:46:00.000+00:002007-10-03T15:46:00.000+00:00About a third of the Baselitz show at the Royal Ac...About a third of the Baselitz show at the Royal Academy is well worth a visit Nige. All goes well until late in life he does insipid cover versions of his earlier work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-78050300009801846482007-10-03T14:25:00.000+00:002007-10-03T14:25:00.000+00:00The Reformation, Republicanism, Restoration; one l...The Reformation, Republicanism, Restoration; one lot puts it up, the other pulls it down. When I visit Winchcombe and look on the remains of Sudeley Castle, I shake my head and quietly ask "Oliver, why? why? And, once, I'm sure I heard a voice answer: "Simple, it was one of theirs, not one of ours. We weren't in the slightest concerned with what future generations wanted with castles, great Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-47539117836036318682007-10-03T13:12:00.000+00:002007-10-03T13:12:00.000+00:00but the truth can sometimes be ugly, no?but the truth can sometimes be ugly, no?Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-63341955633990451552007-10-03T12:51:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:51:00.000+00:00Good point Susan - but then the context itself no ...Good point Susan - but then the context itself no longer exists, such was the destruction - we can only see them now as art objects, and this does in its way enrich them.<BR/>Ian, I've nothing against the Tate Modern building - it's the layout and the stupid hang (and the people of course). I've never known anywhere that makes good/great art look so paltry.<BR/>And I'm inclined to equate beauty Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-70147447776262113182007-10-03T12:28:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:28:00.000+00:00Susan BI think you might have got my meaning arse ...Susan B<BR/><BR/>I think you might have got my meaning arse about. Whilst I wouldn't want to swap living in the early 21st century for pre-reformation England, I would have preferred that to the 100 odd years after the reformationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-84607611656378325402007-10-03T12:12:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:12:00.000+00:00yeah, it's a pain to have to search out one or two...yeah, it's a pain to have to search out one or two pieces that you like. there's only ever one or two. the trouble is it's a different one or two for each person. what is it you find ghastly about Tate Modern? the building, I guess - otherwise why would you go at all?<BR/><BR/>do you equate art with beauty, beauty with art, nige? it's interesting.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-87355070884448061922007-10-03T12:11:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:11:00.000+00:00Spoken like a true Ruskinian, Nige.The English ala...Spoken like a true Ruskinian, Nige.<BR/><BR/>The English alabasters sound lovely, though it's always a bit odd to see things out of context, isn't it? I often think this when I'm in galleries looking at objets plucked from their natural setting and put in a case. And in the instance of your alabasters, they've been removed both temporally and spatially; their home place no longer exists at all.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-2546190077472373412007-10-03T12:05:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:05:00.000+00:00This blog is in danger of getting alarmingly react...<I>This blog is in danger of getting alarmingly reactionary.</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, well Spongebob, as we reactionaries like to say: "Dare to struggle, dare to win!".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80910809367455495232007-10-03T12:00:00.000+00:002007-10-03T12:00:00.000+00:00The Catholic Mediterranean did handle it's religio...The Catholic Mediterranean did handle it's religious past pretty well, but they had their own upheavals too. France had a revolution, the Spanish a civil war and dont't forget the Italians invented Fascism. Rupture may be unavoidable (and sometimes even desirable).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-34557267813396930302007-10-03T11:43:00.000+00:002007-10-03T11:43:00.000+00:00SpongebobWho wants to stay in medieval Europe? I,...Spongebob<BR/><BR/>Who wants to stay in medieval Europe? I, for one, would have preferred development based on continuity rather than rupture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-44671728234585701752007-10-03T11:38:00.000+00:002007-10-03T11:38:00.000+00:00This blog is in danger of getting alarmingly react...This blog is in danger of getting alarmingly reactionary. Even if New Labour's not that good I doubt we'd enjoy a return to pre-Reformation Europe. I think Galileo might back me up on this one. Then again, a few heads on spikes outside the city walls might be more effective than ASBOs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-86834890610060967432007-10-03T11:29:00.000+00:002007-10-03T11:29:00.000+00:00Although, of course, if you were like that profes...Although, of course, if you were like that professional miserabilist and misanthrope, Simon Jenkins, you would believe it was all upside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-28367349380150236722007-10-03T10:58:00.000+00:002007-10-03T10:58:00.000+00:00"brutal iconoclastic destruction of the Reformatio..."brutal iconoclastic destruction of the Reformation (dang, there's always a downside)."<BR/><BR/>You mean there actually was an upside?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com