Electrical Storm: Aldous

Monday, March 8, 2010

Aldous

Everett True "The grasshopper was an artist, whose labors, like those of most artists,were unprofitable and whose leisures were lively and expensive. The ant,on the contrary, was a pillar of his community; he went regularly to the office,worked fourteen hours a day, and put by every penny he could spare" - Aldous Huxley (with thanks to Deniz Martinez)

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"'Our own words' are inadequate even to express the meaning of other words; how much more inadequate, when it is a matter of rendering meanings which have their original expression in terms of music or one of the visual arts!"--Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931

03 March at 18:52 ·

Everett True

man alive, I've never closely looked at his stuff before. I think I should!

03 March at 18:54 ·

Deniz Martinez

"The limits of criticism are very quickly reached. When he has said 'in his own words' as much, or rather as little, as 'own words' can say, the critic can only refer his readers back to the original work of art; let them go an see for themselves."--from the same essay :)

03 March at 18:54 ·

Black Sun

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03 March at 18:56 ·

Deniz Martinez

He was a prolific and brilliant essayist, even moreso than a novelist IMHO (this coming from someone who ranks several of his novels amongst her favourite books). And he wrote a LOT about music and art and literature--and criticism of it all. Like I said, definitely well worth checking out. :)

03 March at 18:57 ·

Everett True

will do. I'm gonna be straight down the QUT library tomorrow morn... oh wait, I am gonna be anyway. But... yes, I will

03 March at 18:59 ·

Deniz Martinez

Cool. Oh, and next time you want to take a swipe at the Pitchfork mentality--"A man can be a great art expert and not have the slightest feeling for art. He can possess a magnificent collection of Old Masters and be without the most rudimentary notion of what pictures are or why people paint them."--Aldous Huxley, "Art and the Critic" (seriously, the guy is a goldmine for stuff like this...cheers!)

03 March at 19:13 ·