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claim:art-is-not-a-trivial-or-interesting-practice-but-something-utterly-fundamental-to-our-human-existence-and-to-the-nature-of-things-as-they-are

Art is not a trivial or interesting practice but something utterly fundamental to our human existence and to the nature of things as they are

Stakes a strong normative claim about the role of art in light of the person-stuff thesis

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Architecture as Mother-Art
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Alexander's characterization of architecture as the fundamental art form that must embody person-stuff

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Art is not merely pleasant or interesting. It has an importance that goes to the very core of the cosmology.claim0.838
New assumption #10: art is cosmologically central.
The art of making something living is sought again and again, avidly — it is like food.claim0.809
Tacit Assumption 6: Art is an intense social phenomenon but has no deep importance in the physical scheme of things.claim0.801
Sixth assumption denying art a fundamental role in the structure of the universe.
Conceptual art is the very last thing which can attain life, because it directly contradicts the rule of unfolding.claim0.790
The great works of traditional art were most often created in a context where the maker was trying to become one with God or lose themselves in the ground.claim0.788
A summary of the reported intentions of historical craftsmen.
The fifteen properties are not merely visual features which appear in works of art. ... they must be fundamental to the appearance of life in all centers that are generated or created in any system.quote0.781
Foundation of the chapter's argument that the properties transcend aesthetics and are fundamental to all physical reality.
But even so, although it is the most naked and forceful artistic act, this too must be seen as an unfolding which uses nothing but the fundamental process.claim0.777
Reconciles the brutal imposition with the unfolding paradigm — it is still the fundamental process, just at its most forceful
IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.769
The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.