In-class summary - Edmund Burke Feldman

Edmund Burke Feldman summary

Aesthetics class

Kerry Keith Murdock

Each student had to give an in-class summary to start the discussion regarding one of the week's philosophers. I chose Edmund Burke Feldman and here are my notes regarding him. 

Born December 17, 1894

Spoke regarding Systems art and Combine painting.

Systems art is art influenced by cybernetics, and systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself.[1]

Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended in the 1960s and 1970s. Closely related and overlapping terms are Anti-form movement, Cybernetic art, Generative Systems, Process art, Systems aesthetic, Systemic art, Systemic painting and Systems sculptures.

A combine painting is an artwork that incorporates various objects into a painted canvas surface, creating a sort of hybrid between painting and sculpture.[1][2][3] Items attached to paintings might include photographic images, clothing, newspaper clippings, ephemera or any number of three-dimensional objects.

Edmund Burke Feldman is the author of Varieties Of Visual Experience

Quotations From EDMUND BURKE FELDMAN

“The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires”

― Edmund Burke Feldman

First You Must Learn to See

It seems likely that artists will always endeavor to master the devices which create illusions. As they grow beyond the student stage, they may abandon some of these devices, or they may discover new uses of the tools they have acquired. Certainly our principal masters have undergone the discipline of reporting their visual experience, and it has served them well when they have sought “to render the invisible visible.” But mastery of the techniques of representation is not undertaken merely to discard them later, or to possess the confidence which is based on having endured a difficult discipline. Learning to draw accurately teaches the artist to see, that is, to understand what he is looking at. He must learn to distinguish between imitation of surfaces and informed representation. Laymen can benefit from the artists’s struggle to learn to see if they compare his rendering of reality with the world as they know it. In the difference between the two lies the important body of meaning which the study of art endeavors to uncover.

Edmund Burke Feldman from Varieties of Visual Experience (1972)

At least 10 Book titles:
Varieties Of Visual Experience; Art As Image And Idea

Engaging Art in Dialogue

 The Artist: A Social History

 Practical Art Criticism

 Philosophy of Art Education

 Thinking about Art

Art as Image and Idea

A Sermon on Work, Language, and Values

Becoming Human Through Art; Aesthetic Experience In The School

 Art In American Higher Institutions (No 205)

 Teaching Art And So On

 And Irvin Tepper -- When Cups Speak: Life with the Cup-A 25 Year Survey