From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Sep 18 14:36:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_1_3); 18 Sep 2002 21:36:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 37394 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 21:36:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Sep 2002 21:36:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 21:36:56 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA20212; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:48:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200209182148.RAA20212@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:36:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] figurative painting & anti-zi'o (was: RE: Re: I like chocolate To: a.rosta@lycos.co.uk (And Rosta) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:36:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: from "And Rosta" at Sep 18, 2002 10:32:45 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan And Rosta scripsit: > I don't see the error in describing Rothko or Kandinsky as > nonrepresentational. Their works may evoke, but they don't represent. They don't represent *iconically*, but I think they still represent, though I grant that it would be hard to say just what they represent. (I was an English major, but it would be hard to say of just what regiment.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan