Andrew McCluskey

Artists are agents of invention who attempt to change the dominant conventions (although many individuals operating under the rubric of "artist" have much more pedestrian and commercial goals.)

1.9.1 The avant-garde exposes, devalues, and alters existing conventions in search of new cultural arrangements that could provide new aesthetic... See more

the silence of my bedroom where the only way to escape the invisible yellow caution-tape around my small-town life was on spiral leaf graph-paper.

Aesthetically sophisticate individuals are likely to become cosmopolitan — i.e. they understand their culture of origin as arbitrary and become open-minded towards alternatives. Individuals with fewer aesthetic experiences are likely to remain provincial : They believe that only their culture of origin is correct, which closes their minds to other... See more