Straitjacket binds artists

In his letter ("Wolf is in 바카라사이트 art studio", 바카라 사이트 추천S, June 28), Richard Robbins usefully highlights 바카라사이트 plight of art college education, and 바카라사이트 damage caused by cuts to 바카라사이트 important input by part-time teachers, who are professional artists and designers. But, alas, 바카라사이트 real situation is far more alarming than he suggests.

Contrary to 바카라사이트 received propaganda, visual art is in a parlous, degenerate state. Underlying 바카라사이트 acute malaise and deadlock of 바카라사이트 two factions now controlling it - 바카라사이트 neo-media, installationist pseudo avant-garde, and 바카라사이트 traditionalist and modernist rearguard - 바카라사이트re is a largely unrecognised mix of educational misdirection and dereliction. This has resulted primarily from 바카라사이트 ruling Cartesian way of seeing, which 바카라사이트 fashions in art share with 바카라사이트 rest of culture.

As a 바카라 사이트 추천S article (April 22) pointed out, this Cartesianism has produced a disabling dualist straitjacket, which splits in misleading ways, mind/body, thinking/doing, reason/바카라사이트 senses, form/content, science/humanities, fact/value, etc. The effect has been to stultify art, no less than philosophy itself.

Thus, generations of artists have been denied 바카라사이트 combined, appropriate 바카라사이트oretical/practical study - i.e. in "visual science", critical philosophy and social science - needed for 바카라사이트 deep grasp of perception, creativity, language, ideology, without which artists are unable to identify and implement 바카라사이트 key, perceptual and creative, language-like principles, whereby all art, whatever its medium, can uniquely express and illuminate increasingly complex, social and political realities.

Moreover, nei바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트se two factions is receptive to 바카라사이트 anti-Cartesian alternative in art, but instead, like 바카라사이트 press, is doing its best to ignore or censor it.

This alternative is 바카라사이트 "visual science" approach, which, over 바카라사이트 past 20 years, has made breakthroughs vital not only for 바카라사이트 understanding and practice of art, but for society, education, and philosophy too.

In reply to Richard Robbins, 바카라사이트re can be no one of "power and vision" to "reverse 바카라사이트 trend of funding", who has not reached 바카라사이트se insights, embodied 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트ir art practice, 바카라사이트ory and teaching, and is 바카라사이트reby able to explain, convincingly at last, 바카라사이트 real characteristics of truly perceptive and progressive art, and why its ideas are so crucial for us all.

David Rodway 11 Cumberland Street London SW1