Comments on: Pattern

By: Dean Taylor Drewyer

Dean Taylor Drewyer — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:04:00 +0000

Im a painter & teacher – gonna go find and read again susanne langer – thanks.

By: edward mycue

edward mycue — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:21:01 +0000

i’m not an academic, but susanne langer is always on my shelf. i’ve never completely understood her, but i feel that what she writes is honestly true and without phoniness.

By: v wulf

v wulf — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:12:54 +0000

Your comments here made me think of Susanne K Langer’s book “Feeling and Form”. She says, “art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling”. Perhaps she might seem dated compared to more contemporary aesthetic thinkers, but when I read her years ago she seemed much more insightful than most post-modernists. I wonder if any academics bother reading her books these days?

By: jd

jd — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:30:47 +0000

Lovely image, Edward.

By: edward mycue

edward mycue — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:03:08 +0000

that line ‘wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could hear the songs that were sung when that wall was being painted’ is so evocative in that it includes the movement and the activity as we might imagine them and this might be compared in our personal experience with some event even so simple as when at four just recovering from an illness my mother having place a soft-boiled egg in its little cup before my wondering face reached over and clipped-off the top and scooped-out the center onto the little plate of buttered pieces of toast and spoke so reassuringly to me. edward mycue