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If it can’t be put into words, how can you call it not good? The fact that something isn’t imitated or featured in books has almost nothing to do with whether
by keiferski 3y ago
If it can’t be put into words, how can you call it not good?
The fact that something isn’t imitated or featured in books has almost nothing to do with whether it is “good” or not, merely that it’s not in line with the wants and needs of builders and publishers.
I’m not a huge fan of Alexander and in fact I don’t actually know much of his work, but these aren’t very good criticisms.
- itigtohft 3y agoWell, tough. This is how art works: a consensus emerges among practitioners that some things are better than other things, even though nobody can articulate in words just what makes the good things so good, or the bad things bad. The discipline of aesthetics is kind of irrelevant to art and architecture: it doesn't have much useful content, and it's not helpful in judging work. Most artists/architects don't use it in any way. It's just windy philosophizing. The taste of food is similar. If I'm a restaurant critic and I tell you that a certain restaurant is good, you need to have a way of assessing that opinion which doesn't involve requiring it to be written in some kind of positivistic, quantified, apodictic form.
- keiferski 3y agoNo, that isn’t how art works at all. The actual practitioners often have very little influence on art criticism. This clearly isn’t a serious discussion and you don’t seem interested in (or capable of) justifying any opinions you have, so I think I’ll end it here.