Posted by Jerry Silverman on April 25, 1999 at 23:48:47:
In Reply to: Re: A Stretch on Aesthetics? posted by Steve Price on April 25, 1999 at 20:26:26:
: Dear Marvin,
: I'm not sure that it happened in the second quarter of the 19th century either. I am pretty confident that this is what's generally believed, though, which is what I said.
: Steve Price
In a discipline which usually confines itself to the questions "what," "where," "who," and "when," the most difficult - and least addressed - is "why." Why, by its very nature, goes to intent. Discerning the intent of the long dead is a task of deductive reasoning which may find itself susceptible to multiple interpretations.
Such is our task that Steve has set for us.
-Jerry-