WHAT IS OBJECTIVE ART?
BY JAMES ANTHONY In the philosophical sense, objective implies a world outside of ourselves, a world with its own inherent qualities which we can come to know. As the Oxford Dictionary defines it, objective is “the object of perception or thought, as distinct from the perceiving or thinking subject…the character of being…external to the mind.” Subjective is “relating to the thinking of the subject…having its source in the mind.” The ultimate subjective view is that all experience is a product of the mind and that, if anything exists outside the mind, it is unknowable as such. Neither point of view can be defended in an absolute sense. Clearly, an objective universe can only be known through the perceptual apparatus and this fact takes us toward the subjective. But it also seems possible to experience the world more objectively by dealing with the raw data of experience as it presents itself in physical sensations, emotions and insights without the subjective elements of personal
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