Posts by Kyle Matthews
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It's very concerning to see conservation schedules... screwed over like this. It seems to defy the very nature of putting something in schedule 4, to then agree that we can mine it. It either needs protecting or it doesn't, and if it does need protecting, it can't need protecting until we find out that there's gold in them their hills.
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I don't find the title offensive, in context of the post that it goes with.
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This increasingly feels like a silly discussion. Despite the abundent evidence of ancient art from many cultures, this art was not properly conceived until the European Renaissance came along. Theoretically then, if Europe hadn't had a renaissance, art still might not exist, despite being around walls and objects for thousands of years.
Show me the evidence of these cultures having a conception of art.
They made art. Did they not know what they were doing? You seem to have reduced the 'art tent' to a European style post-15th century pup tent with only white men at the back.
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Pixies return to play Christchurch August 3rd
This truly is wondrous news. I might even be able to attend!
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Of course not. I said they were rediscovered. I was referring to the craftsmen of the Middle Ages, who were not regarded as artists because there was no conception of art at that time.
They were artists in their own time, but were then rediscovered centuries later, but art was invented in the 15th century?
How can they have been artists producing art if art wasn't invented yet?
This looks a little bit like art to me. As does this, this, and this. All pre-15th century, some even non-European.
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Then, in the very next paragraph, the article points out that if you're going to generalise about anyone, you should generalise about Samoans!
To be fair, while they're both generalisations, one at least is a generalisation backed up by some data. Whether or not it's appropriate to put it in there, the paper is presumably trying to point out that Air NZ not only shouldn't have put it in there, but it's probably wrong as well.
All information about large groups will of course be a generalisation.
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I think there was a time before art. Larry Shiner argues that art was invented in the 18th Century, a part of the great enlightenment project of classification.
Man. Michelangelo, Leonardo, Leonardo, and the other teenage mutant turtle are going to be pissed that you brought that up.
Art is a European invention, a word that describes particular non-utile activities.
I'd like to point out, since no one else has seemed to do so, that this is crap. Lots of non-European societies have done non-utile art type activities.
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Everyone; it requires consensus, but not agreement.
If there is consensus, surely everyone agrees?
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I do like that life insurance is advertised at the bottom of that page.:)
Caterham Life is a magazine to do with the car. Caterham Insurance is car insurance. Two separate adverts.
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I'm just saying it's the kind of art I'd happily take a blowtorch to.
Upcoming performance piece by Giovanni Tiso: "Artworks I don't like melting before your eyes."