[Smt-talk] Aesthetics of Computer-Generated Music

[Eliot Handelman]

On 13/04/2011 11:25 AM, David Bashwiner wrote:


> [...] believing a display to in fact not be one might increase one's 
> aesthetic appreciation of it.

For me there's a borderline case where this is generally true: the 
distinction between art that
seems to be of itself, and art that seems to reflect a human volition. 
Kakfa, for instance,
seems to have regarded the latter as "the wrong kind of writing." 
Malraux also famously
wrote of the dissolution of the artist in the artwork.

-- eliot
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