addendum

[the_grynne]

So. If you've been reading my posts the last couple of days (and if not, Why? *smirk*), you'll have some idea that I've been

(a) talking at length about the treatment of Thomas Tallis in Showtime's The Tudors,
(b) revisiting Ovid's Metamorphoses, in particular the story about Orpheus and Eurydice, and
(c) doing supplementary reading for a

Comments

[kenorland]

This is exactly how I feel. Thank you for posting.

[the_grynne]

This was kind of what we were talking about, isn't it? It felt like fate that I happened upon that book on that day.

You're welcome. :)

[rez_lo]

Ah! And now I'm going to be annoying and ask whether you've read any of Manuel Castells's three-volume work, the second of which is titled The Power of Identity?

Also, reading the excerpt above made me think of Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life, which talks about our creation/accretion of identity out of what surrounds us.

That, to me, is art, pure and simple. I see now that I conflate the two, the formation of identity and the making of art, so thank you for nudging me to that clarification.

And congratulations on that visceral intellectual sense that you've got hold of something big. That's exciting.

[the_grynne]

Ooh! Books.

No, I haven't read any of those works, although they look very interesting. And I'll certainly look into them (with any luck before my anthropology unit on migrant cultures next semester).

I've kind of had this idea that the making art was humanity's project of tellings stories/symbols/representations of how it sees the world - or something of that sort.