{"id":1653,"date":"2011-08-18T21:36:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/features\/art-of-the-matter-richard-eyre-on-the-meaning-of-culture-1819476.html\" target=\"_blank\">this speech<\/a> given for the opening of a new theater in England, the British actor\/director <"},"modified":"2011-08-23T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:28:50","slug":"the-art-of-the-matter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/the-art-of-the-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of the Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/art\/features\/art-of-the-matter-richard-eyre-on-the-meaning-of-culture-1819476.html\" target=\"_blank\">this speech<\/a> given for the opening of a new theater in England, the British actor\/director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Eyre\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Eyre<\/a> talks about the &#8220;theaterness&#8221; of theater and about how the arts help provide meaning in an otherwise &#8220;meaningless&#8221; life (see his mention of the famous quote by philosopher George Santayana that &#8220;music is useless, as life is&#8221;).\u00a0<!--more-->Eyre asks several thought-provoking questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do we believe that if something is popular it can&#8217;t be art?<\/li>\n<li>What is the difference between art and entertainment?<\/li>\n<li>Is Bob Dylan a better poet than Keats?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider your answers to his questions, then thinking about these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which type of artwork (music, theater, visual, film, sculpture, architecture, literature, poetry,&#8230;) excites or interests or inspires you most on a consistent basis?\u00a0 In short, what are you drawn to most often?\u00a0 Why do you think that is?<\/li>\n<li>In terms of what we&#8217;ve learned about critical thinking, what assumptions or evidence would you need to consider to answer a question like &#8220;is poet A better than poet B&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Do you agree with George Santayana that life is useless and that art tries to help us make sense of that uselessness?\u00a0 How does it do that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Return to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/spotlight-schedule\/aesthetic-perspectives\/\">Dan McGregor Spotlight page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this speech given for the opening of a new theater in England, the British actor\/director Richard Eyre talks about the &#8220;theaterness&#8221; of theater and about how the arts help provide meaning in an otherwise &#8220;meaningless&#8221; life (see his mention of the famous quote by philosopher George Santayana that &#8220;music is useless, as life is&#8221;).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1665,"featured_media":1567,"parent":1463,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1653","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653\/revisions\/1742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}