Our reality is imperfect; there is no reality more perfect.
Art is beautiful. Art lies. Art shows truth. Truth is ugly. Reality is true.
Reality seeks perfection; perfection isn't real.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
KMN
So... memoirs, essays, and life stories on postcards. They have a surprisingly large amount in common. All of them are shorter genres, though really that is a very vague claim because you could technically write any of them however long you wanted. The main point is that they are all "nonfiction." They are all expected to be "real."However, they are all altered versions of reality. Memoirs are supposedly real events that have happened in someone's life, yet they are written many years later from only one person's perspective so many aspects may change. Essays are also one person's opinion on a matter, and that perspective may not be reality yet it is classified as nonfiction. The life stories on the back of the postcards are people's lives made interesting. They are not the truth, or a summary of a life, but they are entertaining and based on reality.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
In Agreement
G
In point 194, Shields claims "good nonfiction has to be as carefully shaped as good fiction, and I'm not bothered at all by this artifice" (66). I agree with this idea because nonfiction is just as much art as fiction. Nonfiction is not just the plain, bare facts. Nonfiction can also be made interesting and story-like, and this is the trick it plays. We think the interesting and story-like parts are also the facts, but they are actually created by the writer. Nonfiction without this artistic manipulation would not be good nonfiction, it must be shaped like fiction in order to become good nonfiction.
H
In point 242, Shields claims "our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any" (82). This is so true. We are crazy about celebrity reality T.V. shows and breaking news on twitter because we want not only to experience real events but also to experience every real event. We cannot bare the thought of not knowing or not being there. Yet the irony is that those experiences aren't real either. Every line in reality T.V. is scripted, and the news is fed to us precisely in a way to get a reaction or depict a desired image.
I
In point 248, Shields claims "we're living in a newsy time" (84). Couldn't agree more. Everything is news! Someone from a movie has a baby, their face is all over the magazines. An organization makes a decision in Thailand and we hear about it in Colombia. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and I don't think Shields is either, I think it's just the nature of our culture to want to know everything. It's part of our search for reality: we want to be a part of reality everywhere.
In point 194, Shields claims "good nonfiction has to be as carefully shaped as good fiction, and I'm not bothered at all by this artifice" (66). I agree with this idea because nonfiction is just as much art as fiction. Nonfiction is not just the plain, bare facts. Nonfiction can also be made interesting and story-like, and this is the trick it plays. We think the interesting and story-like parts are also the facts, but they are actually created by the writer. Nonfiction without this artistic manipulation would not be good nonfiction, it must be shaped like fiction in order to become good nonfiction.
H
In point 242, Shields claims "our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any" (82). This is so true. We are crazy about celebrity reality T.V. shows and breaking news on twitter because we want not only to experience real events but also to experience every real event. We cannot bare the thought of not knowing or not being there. Yet the irony is that those experiences aren't real either. Every line in reality T.V. is scripted, and the news is fed to us precisely in a way to get a reaction or depict a desired image.
I
In point 248, Shields claims "we're living in a newsy time" (84). Couldn't agree more. Everything is news! Someone from a movie has a baby, their face is all over the magazines. An organization makes a decision in Thailand and we hear about it in Colombia. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, and I don't think Shields is either, I think it's just the nature of our culture to want to know everything. It's part of our search for reality: we want to be a part of reality everywhere.
Commentary Commentary
So I'm just going to listen to the audio comments and comment about them as I go.
Oops I'd forgotten about using "proper" on the first page. You told me to take it out and I didn't. My bad.
I'm glad the part about syntactical patterns was good, I was quite proud of my analysis there.
My bad again with the wrong formatting of the long quotation, I forgot to look it up.
About the "diverse and realistic creation" part, I think I had something else there that was similar but I changed it to what it is now.
Overall, I agree with all of your comments about things that could have been changed but I'm happy with both my grade and my paper.
Oops I'd forgotten about using "proper" on the first page. You told me to take it out and I didn't. My bad.
I'm glad the part about syntactical patterns was good, I was quite proud of my analysis there.
My bad again with the wrong formatting of the long quotation, I forgot to look it up.
About the "diverse and realistic creation" part, I think I had something else there that was similar but I changed it to what it is now.
Overall, I agree with all of your comments about things that could have been changed but I'm happy with both my grade and my paper.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
82
82
Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth.
Sounds a lot like
Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth
which is an aphorism by Pablo Picasso.
So, assuming it's not just a crazy coincidence, David Shields was alluding to Picasso's words. It also relates back to the opening aphorism, "art is theft," which is also by Picasso. We can draw two conclusions from this: 1) Shields is a fan of Picasso and 2) Shields agrees with Picasso.
The point of this manifesto is that art cannot be sold as property, it should be available for use and growth by all similar to scientific findings. Here he demonstrates that belief by putting it into action with Picasso's quote. The aphorism also shows that art's main use is to show us things. The purpose of art is to learn something from it or see something in it. Basically, the point of art is more than art. So, it should be impossible to copyright or even steal because art is not even itself, it is something that leads us to something more. And, according to Picasso and Shields, that something more is truth.
Art is not truth; art is a lie that enables us to recognize truth.
Sounds a lot like
Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth
which is an aphorism by Pablo Picasso.
So, assuming it's not just a crazy coincidence, David Shields was alluding to Picasso's words. It also relates back to the opening aphorism, "art is theft," which is also by Picasso. We can draw two conclusions from this: 1) Shields is a fan of Picasso and 2) Shields agrees with Picasso.
The point of this manifesto is that art cannot be sold as property, it should be available for use and growth by all similar to scientific findings. Here he demonstrates that belief by putting it into action with Picasso's quote. The aphorism also shows that art's main use is to show us things. The purpose of art is to learn something from it or see something in it. Basically, the point of art is more than art. So, it should be impossible to copyright or even steal because art is not even itself, it is something that leads us to something more. And, according to Picasso and Shields, that something more is truth.
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