tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post1384474431174767450..comments2024-01-26T17:29:53.415-05:00Comments on Reader's Almanac: An interview with Jed Perl: how the lives of visual artists were “woven together with the lives of novelists, poets, and intellectuals”The Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-48795514154676760432014-12-09T10:39:48.827-05:002014-12-09T10:39:48.827-05:00Thank goodness for Jed Perl who addresses the impo...Thank goodness for Jed Perl who addresses the importance of a wider view of what makes artists and their art so important for us to see and experience beyond the limits imposed by the usual art establishment that wants just "their golden child's works" to be seen and admired (at the highest prices they can command too).<br />I find that Jed has both a sophisticated eye for painting and a way of telling the story that shows the complexity of the art without trying to "expalin" it. Fairfield Porter wrote that we live in an age of "explaination" which is derived from how we elevated science, but art is about Vitality which cannot be measured, just acknowledged and felt. Jed Perl's work is to me satisfying because he too sees and writes in this way about art. Bravo to Jed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com