Riffy Bol
@riffy.bsky.social
"Until breadth of interest is held in higher esteem, today’s dilettante will largely have to forgo public recognition and settle for a private life of pursuits and pleasures" aeon.co/essays/why-t... via @aeon.co
Dilettante
a person who is interested in some art (or some other area of interest) but doesn't really commit or have real knowledge of that art; layman; amateur; non-professional
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ROROTOKO
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Goethe and Schiller once sketched an Art School for Non-Artists, a military-like academy.
Paul Fleming on mediocrity and the dilettante.
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https://rorotoko.com/micro-interviews/20090724-fleming-paul-exemplarity-mediocrity-art-average-bourgeois-tragedy-2?utm_source=bluesky
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Jan Schneekloth
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''It’s not that the dilettante falls short in any given practice but, rather, has a different orientation toward it. Indeed, an overly goal-oriented attitude, especially in the realm of pastimes and pleasures, cuts against the very spirit of dilettantism. Part of its appeal is its ethos of [...]''
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