You Must Change Your Life! Hermeneutics as Living Demand Fundamental to hermeneutics is the idea that experiences of artworks, texts, and traditions inform and shape our being in the world, and that such experiences have aesthetic, ethical, and pedagogical impacts. If understanding requires openness to what remains to be said and the voice of the […]
Call for Papers – Analecta Hermeneutica Vol. XIII
Call for Papers │ Volume XIII (2021) For Hermeneutics Yet to Come: Gadamer and Ricoeur’s Legacy to 21st-Century Thought The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH) has existed under the imprimatur of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur since 2002 and 2003 respectfully, as the torch of hermeneutic philosophy was passed from these two giants of 20th-century […]
Joyce’s Process
The Drafting of “Proteus” Lines 390-398 A side eye at my Latin Quarter hat. Walking across the sands of all the world, origin of the sun’s flaming sword to the west, to evening lands. She trudges; schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. A tide westering, moondrawn, in her wake. Moondrawn tides within her, a [illegible], […]
The Big Wonderful Digital Première
Filo Sofi Arts invites you to celebrate with us as we launch our Digital Première of the work of Iris Scott. Please join us for The Big Wonderful, presented in collaboration with Burnet Fine Art.
The virtual event will take place at 12 pm EST Tuesday, May 26, when we will also celebrate Iris’ birthday. Access to a digital viewing room will be extended after the event. Click here to register. Continue reading “The Big Wonderful Digital Première”
Everybody Gets a Cat
Iris Scott and the Problem of Kitsch
In the winter of 2018 there was a row in PN Review over the work of poets who have taken to Instagram and YouTube as alternatives to traditional publishing that foreshadows a similar reckoning in the world of painting. Rebecca Watts takes aim at “The Cult of the Noble Amateur” in issue 239 of PN Review, criticizing poets such as Rupi Kaur, Kate Tempest, and Hollie McNish for reducing poetry to mere honesty and accessibility. Watts argues that such a reduction ignores important elements of craft and leaves such poets devoid of “the aspiration to do anything well.” Similar complaints have been lodged against artists working in other mediums who have used social media to boost their profile and have, over time, achieved massive commercial success through digital accessibility. Paintings by artists such as Iris Scott carrying substantial price tags in the tens-of-thousands and have garnered her a huge following on social media platforms. It seems the problem of “kitsch” has again reared its head in the art world – but can such a criticism stick and does it even matter? Continue reading “Everybody Gets a Cat”
Donovan Irven 