MUSEUM-L Archives

Museum discussion list

MUSEUM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Alan Sisley <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:57:42 +1000
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (18 lines)
Although I don't have a copy with me so can't give you a reference, I would be inclined to go to the "inventor" of the term Catharsis - Aristotle.

Alan Sisley
Director
Orange Regional Gallery
PO Box 35
Orange NSW 2800
Australia
Phone 61 02 63615136
Fax     61 02 63615100
E mail  [log in to unmask]


Jennifer Nuske wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good quote (which I would like to use somewhere in
> the exhibition, perhaps at the entrance or in a catalogue) about art as a
> 'cathartic' action or experience?

ATOM RSS1 RSS2