Perhaps this is the first time I have taken a serious look at research in Art myself. A casual chit chat with my old professor of Art History and aesthetics, one cold rainy evening last week at the Mahatma Gandhi University Guest house triggered the process. Or shall I say put me into the ‘strange loop’. It was a bizarre discussion about the deep seated meanings in the so called ‘meaninglessness of certain entities’ in modern art and literature. Something that finds its celebration in hifi science fiction works as well as in the hilariously ridiculous logic of cartoons and animated motion pictures.
On close observation these meaningless entities lie in our perception or if we are to use a more technical word the:’Cognition’. With this the conversation took a turn into the celebrated work of Douglas Hofstadter, ‘GEB: The eternal golden braid’. This book was presented to me by an old girl friend who understood my fascination for the bizarre theories connecting Science, Mathematics, Art and Literature.
Now it is up to me to go on a quest to collect and theoretically organize all the fascinating observation I have made in Post Modern Art and Literature. This quest will also make new leads to find the strange loops that are meaningfully placed everywhere- in Art, Literature, Philosophy, Music, Science, The Universe, and in Life!
This will be my Quest for the next few year
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