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Art, Beauty, and Inspiration in a Catholic Perspective

May 16, 2012 by at 11:13 pm

You should go, perhaps en route to Wisconsin.

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  1. Big Jon, Bully says:
    May 17, 2012 at 5:30 am

    Looks excellent. Wish I could take my son. Thanks S.E.

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  2. Southern Expat says:
    May 17, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Meant to add – for those who may be reading and put off by the cost – they are flexible about payment arrangements, as it is a year-long course (I think).

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  3. Big Jon, Bully says:
    May 17, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    Maybe there is an additional dispensation for Mercy Sunday related to the fees for collaborative learning programs. I’ve been feeling the need lately to learn more about art from a Catholic point of view. This seems like it would be a great time.

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    • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says:
      May 17, 2012 at 11:09 pm

      Leary: Science, as you so often point out, has failed man. But so, too, has God. How is art the solution for man as he aimlessly roams the cosmos?

      Percy: Explain how God has failed. Does this mean that God exists but that he might have done a better job? Or that man has screwed up and supposed, therefore, that God has failed? I didn’t say art was the solution. I would agree that with a failure of religion for many people, art is often promoted as a quasi-religious vocation. I’m not sure how successfully this works, even for the most talented and committed artists and art lovers. I dealt with this interesting art-as-religion phenomenon in Lost in the Cosmos: for example, comparing the transcending God-likeness of Faulkner while writing The Sound and the Fury with the crash afterward — drunk for a week — and the exaltation of the moviegoer after seeing a fine movie — say, Wild Strawberries — and then what? One hour, two hours later, what? I called this the ‘reentry’ problem.

      Leary: You give writers a lot of bad press in Lost in the Cosmos. Why do you suppose writers are different from others? Does their temperament differ significantly from other artists?

      Percy: Also in Lost in the Cosmos: writers are in the front line of sensibility, like the canaries miners take down in the shafts to test the air. Also: writers are the ‘Protestants’ of art, with nothing but their Scripto pencils and Blue-Horse tablets; painters are the ‘Catholics’, with concrete intermediaries, clay, paint, models, fruit, landscape, etc. This is why writers drink more and painters live longer.

      – Leary, Robin, ‘Surviving His Own Bad Habits: An Interview with Walker Percy’ (1983); published in More Conversations with Walker Percy (1993), p. 61.

      (Emphasis added.)

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