Comments on: Mass-Produced Sentiments http://newbloodart.com/blog/mass-produced-sentiments/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Soraya http://newbloodart.com/blog/mass-produced-sentiments/comment-page-1/#comment-2895 Soraya Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:03:57 +0000 http://newbloodart.com/blog/?p=1626#comment-2895 Hi Emma, I liked this post. I thought you might be interested in Christopher RIcks' 'chapter called 'Clichés' (another species of generic speech) in his book 'The Force of Poetry'. "A cliché begins as heartfelt, and then its heart sinks. But no song about lovers and their hearts can afford to turn away from those truths which may never get old but whose turns of phrase have got grey and old and full of sleep. The trouble with a cliché like <em>take it to heart</em> is that by now it's almost impossible to take it to heart. Yet genius with words is often a matter, as T.S. Eliot said, of being original with the minimum of alteration..." Anyway I think you might like him - he's a very vigilant writer. Soraya Hi Emma,

I liked this post. I thought you might be interested in Christopher RIcks’ ‘chapter called ‘Clichés’ (another species of generic speech) in his book ‘The Force of Poetry’.

“A cliché begins as heartfelt, and then its heart sinks. But no song about lovers and their hearts can afford to turn away from those truths which may never get old but whose turns of phrase have got grey and old and full of sleep. The trouble with a cliché like take it to heart is that by now it’s almost impossible to take it to heart. Yet genius with words is often a matter, as T.S. Eliot said, of being original with the minimum of alteration…”

Anyway I think you might like him – he’s a very vigilant writer.

Soraya

]]> By: Davina http://newbloodart.com/blog/mass-produced-sentiments/comment-page-1/#comment-2387 Davina Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:28:33 +0000 http://newbloodart.com/blog/?p=1626#comment-2387 This is a really interesting post, a great first time blog. Modern technology and society seem to be limiting our vocabulary, like you say, a 'LOL' or 'congrats' is commonly accepted. Its as though the world we live in has no time for language, expressing things in words is too old fashioned & time consuming! This could be a positive thing for visual artists, as works of art commonly express complicated ideas/feelings through one single image. One image = a whole essay! Good art can often represent things that cannot be articulated via words alone. On the other hand, we could be slowly turning into the society Orwell describes in his famous '1984' where all language is reduced to certain (generic if you like) words that have no ambiguity at all, only direct meaning. I'm all for a world that operates slowly by the exchanging of art, instead of a hyper-fast generic word swap. Maybe that’s just because I’m currently reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, and it could well be turning me into a hippy. This is a really interesting post, a great first time blog. Modern technology and society seem to be limiting our vocabulary, like you say, a ‘LOL’ or ‘congrats’ is commonly accepted. Its as though the world we live in has no time for language, expressing things in words is too old fashioned & time consuming!

This could be a positive thing for visual artists, as works of art commonly express complicated ideas/feelings through one single image. One image = a whole essay! Good art can often represent things that cannot be articulated via words alone. On the other hand, we could be slowly turning into the society Orwell describes in his famous ’1984′ where all language is reduced to certain (generic if you like) words that have no ambiguity at all, only direct meaning.
I’m all for a world that operates slowly by the exchanging of art, instead of a hyper-fast generic word swap. Maybe that’s just because I’m currently reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, and it could well be turning me into a hippy.

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