Tag Archives: Arnold Hauser

jarring sales hustle and aesthetic goals

“Art in the native American mind enjoys the dubious importance attached to the devil in the medieval mind” – Alexander Harvey The artistic imagination enters only rather furtively into economic life. Artistic truth is still revealed not by the artist … Continue reading

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the myth is not invulnerable

Aesthetics and economics. As with the farmer, so it generally went with the small businessperson: dealer, salesman, contractor,and small merchant. Their income may be considered handsome when compared to past standards, but they are, collectively, a group that has to … Continue reading

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fear of hardship: price of precarity

Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading

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muse and the economy

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading

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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry

The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading

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