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"Its not the same. If all existing art disappeared we would still be able to produce art at our current rate with no discernible or measurable difference in its
by padraic7a 9y ago
"Its not the same. If all existing art disappeared we would still be able to produce art at our current rate with no discernible or measurable difference in its quality or effect."
That's a very strange idea.
If all existing novels dissappeared do you think we would produce novels straight away?
If all painting dissappeared would we paint with perspective, or in abstract, or just go for rough cave type paintings?
How long would it take us to come up with rhyming metre, or the observational essay, cinema or stand-up?
You think we'd start from having no references and create this immediately?
- everyone 9y agoMaybe rhyming metre would never be recreated. In some cultures it wasnt. The phase space for what will entertain humans is seemingly almost infinitely detailed, there is no wrong or right way to do it. Eg. people can dance to banging rocks together just as effectively as to Mozart. On the other hand, there is only one Pythagoras' theorem, and an infinitude of similar incorrect theorems. We postulate that intelligent aliens should discover Pythagoras' theorem but not Jazz or De Stijl.