June 28ths
6/28/1896, Chatham, Massachusetts
(Letters of William James)
To Benjamin Paul Blood: "Fear of life in one form or other is the great thing to exorcise; but it isn't reason that will ever do it. Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift....Have you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? I am just about finishing it. It is undoubtedly the greatest novel ever written—also insipid with veracity. The man is infallible—and the anesthetic revelation plays a part as in no writer."
6/28/1934
(Edward Weston Daybooks)
I have often noted Sonya sitting in the little Mexican chair, knees crossed, and one leg twined around the other in a seemingly impossible way,—impossible to me at least—suggesting one vine twisting around another. Anyhow it had a dynamic flow which at once suggested new subject matter. With time, and a new idea, I get into action at once.
Sonya (sans Mexican chair)
6/28/2004, Saturday
To Lincoln Square with Zindarella.
6/28/2018
Consensus vision, or consensus of how beauty and art are defined, is more hardwired into culture. More people are apt to say "that's not art!" than say "that's not music!" or "that's not writing!" Perhaps a good analogy is Andy Warhol. Warhol's pop ethos had been synergistic with the rise of pop music, and avant-garde pop through the Velvet Underground. And yet, more people have contempt for Warhol's art than the music that it inspired. I think aesthetics get different definitions and treatments.
6/28/2023
If an entire civilization had to be rebuilt from nothing, my intuition tells me it would be more of a sacred, mystical art. But abstract and conceptual work would be made as well. Perhaps they will be monuments or monoliths.