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Article: Mind and eyes: photography as a visual art of a common sense.
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- PSA Journal
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Theologian Paul Tillich suggested that since modern arts strongly reveal overwhelming anxiety of modern people, modern arts could be analyzed in the perspectives of deep psychology, existential philosophy and theology. However, I think that it would be problematic if the values of art rely on psychological, philosophical or theological analyses. This approach provides an opportunity for artists and art critics to glorify "strange-looking" arts by citing jargon. A few years ago I visited a museum in Dallas, Texas, in which paintings of Marco Arce were displayed. One caption stated that the painting reveals "clinical, almost anthropological distance." What is "clinical and ...