{"id":9982,"date":"2017-05-22T06:05:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=9982"},"modified":"2017-05-24T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:06:08","slug":"ling-lunch-522-jay-keyser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/05\/22\/ling-lunch-522-jay-keyser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ling-Lunch 5\/22 - Jay Keyser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day has come and Prof. <strong>Jay Keyser<\/strong> will give a special Ling-Lunch talk today!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/keyser\/\">Jay Keyser<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Title:<\/strong> Music, Poetry, Painting and Easter Eggs<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong> Monday, May 22\/12:30-1:50pm <em>[notice the exceptional time!]<\/em><br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Location:<\/strong> 32-D461<br clear='none'\/>\n<strong> Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This talk takes the view that modernism in the so-called sister arts of music, poetry and painting resulted from the abandonment of sets of rules that characterized each genre and that were shared by the artist and his\/her audience. Rules governing meter and tonal music are reasonably well understood. I propose a way to think about \u0093rules\u0094 for the third genre, painting. These rules define a natural aesthetic, \u0092natural&#8217; in that the rules are shared by the artist and his or her audience in the way that the rules of one\u0092s natural language are shared by speaker and listener.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that the esoteric direction that the sister arts took in the period cultural historians call \u0093Modernism\u0094 is a direct result of abandoning the natural, i.e. shared aesthetic for private formats whose origins can be found in the 14th century.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I will speculate on the similarity between what happened to the arts at the turn of the 20th century and what happened in science after the publication of Principia Mathematica two centuries earlier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day has come and Prof. Jay Keyser will give a special Ling-Lunch talk today! Speaker: Jay Keyser Title: Music, Poetry, Painting and Easter Eggs Date\/Time: Monday, May 22\/12:30-1:50pm [notice the exceptional time!] Location: 32-D461 Abstract: This talk takes the view that modernism in the so-called sister arts of music, poetry and painting resulted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10001,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}