tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post3402432453273619805..comments2024-03-18T07:00:59.438-04:00Comments on Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-14167526790873822072010-05-25T07:58:42.171-04:002010-05-25T07:58:42.171-04:00I agree that creative life cycles are important, b...I agree that creative life cycles are important, but disagree that an arc--which may start in the middle, in that an artist's first big hits/critical successes are often, though certainly not always, not that artist's first works--indicates anything about the costs or benefits of being surrounded by works of varying qualities. Mathematicians, for example, show much stronger arcs in terms of when their best work is usually done. I'm not sure we can conclude anything about the effects of exposure to other people's math, bad or good, from that.RThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00850241338827117087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-74639541385650887322010-05-25T01:12:11.173-04:002010-05-25T01:12:11.173-04:00Rebecca, I agree that no one should tell other cre...Rebecca, I agree that no one should tell other creators to "shut up", but for the same reason that Holmes did not want judges to make artistic determinations in Bleistein. Because individuals are the ones who create, however, their creative life cycle is certainly useful and relevant to question of what causes better works to be created. None of what I said, however, is meant to address sampling which I think raises other issues. The recording engineer's references to shame and bad dancing were non-sequiturs to his point of being against sampling for reasons of "laziness," which btw I don't agree with. Thanks for the post.Hugh Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10077715161996836608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-47473636548936628482010-05-25T00:25:18.380-04:002010-05-25T00:25:18.380-04:00Hugh: No, I don't think so. An individual lif...Hugh: No, I don't think so. An individual life cycle is not a culture's. Moreover, the great works of any culture are at the far end of a bell curve. If you want the great works, you can't get them by telling everyone who's not great to shut up. You can, however, get them by encouraging creativity generally. I have yet to encounter a field in which Sturgeon's Law--90% of science fiction is crap, but then 90% of everything is crap--does not hold.RThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00850241338827117087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-58999973691752043692010-05-24T23:31:46.680-04:002010-05-24T23:31:46.680-04:00Many of our leading authors early works are rated ...Many of our leading authors early works are rated higher than their later works, e.g. Tenessee Williams. If exposure to less good works leads to better or greater works, shouldn't the reverse be true?Hugh Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10077715161996836608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-62340911066515444352010-05-24T21:10:18.238-04:002010-05-24T21:10:18.238-04:00Thanks!
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