I’ll be giving an invited talk at The Representational Art Conference in Ventura, 
California, from October 14-17, 2012, hosted and organized by California Lutheran University.
My talk will include themes from my essay “Why Art Became Ugly,” first published in Navigator magazine and subsequently translated into in German [pdf], Korean [pdf], and Spanish.
Other invited speakers include critic Jed Perl, painter/writers John Nava and Virgil Elliott, art professor Ruth Weisberg, writer and museum director Vern Swanson, and Graydon Parrish.
There has been an healthy resurgence of representational art in the last ten years, along with some pushback against the prevailing postmodernist orthodoxy, so I am very much looking forward to this large, formal gathering.
“My talk will include themes from my essay ‘Why Art Became Ugly’…”
Ugly to whom? In your presentation, will you be defining beauty and identifying objective standards for judging it, or will you just continue to smuggle in your own personal, subjective tastes and pretend that they’re universal and objective? Will you be addressing the fact that even Ayn Rand’s theory of aesthetic judgement doesn’t begin with beauty or require it in order for one to make a positive aesthetic judgment? Are you not aware of the fact that Objectivism holds that art can be very ugly yet be rated as aesthetically great, and, on the other hand, Modernists were very concerned with making their abstract forms beautiful?
J
Stalker Jon returns.
That’s all you’ve got? No answers to my questions? No intellectual curiosity, no pursuit of the truth, and no interest in correcting your mistaken theories? Nothing but whining that you’re being “stalked”? How pathetic.
J
Dear S. J.:
From three different people I’ve heard warnings about your behavior on other sites.
You showed up at my site awhile ago and quickly acted in a way that confirmed their warnings.
So I make a judgment call: You’re not the kind of person it’s fun, productive, or otherwise worth talking with.
Clear enough? Yes.