autotelism
n : belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification
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Vu's Reads:
- The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, Nikki Giovani
- The Story of my Father, Sue Miller
- Curve Away from Stillness: Science Poems, John Allman
- Science and Other Poems, Alison Hawthorne Deming
- Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems, Lee Bennett Hopkins
- The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, Kurt Brown
- Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, Robert Crawford
- Denver Quarterly
- Life after Death, the Burden of Proof, Deepak Chopra
- Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Maria Rilke
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
- Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life, Christopher Reeve
- The Essential Mystics: The Soul's Journey into Truth, Andrew Harvey
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
- Unable for the World to Sleep, Tom Ruud
- Stumbling on Happiness (the science of happy), Daniel Gilbert
- The Language of Archetypes, Caroline Myss
- Willow Room, Green Door; Deborah Keenan
- On Writing, Stephen King
- We Are All Welcome Here, Elizabeth Berg
- Through the Open Door to the Vastness of Your True Being, Eckhart Tolle
- Gilgamesh, Some Dead Guy
- Telling, Patricia Francisco
- Great Gatsby
5 comments:
Hmmm. I'm smelling a story here. How is this word pronounced?
How else is there to be about it?
dictionary.com didn't have a pronunciation.
apparently there are other ways to be about art, like creating it for rewards of the end result, like money, status, or freedom. (i've read stories of writers who were locked in a room till they produced so many pages).
yeah, some great art was made that way. which now seems a bit less real to me, because it was fueled by something that makes it not quite so arty.
i'm an autotelist, if there is such a thing. i didn't know there was a word for it. i like it.
i wonder if there's a word for "a belief that making artwork is just a way to get cool stuff."
Yes, that word exists. It's called "Britney Spears."
But someone needs to correct her definition of art.
I know what it's like to find the word that describes you. Last year, I had an epiphany when I discovered the word sesquipedalianism. Finally, a name for the disease!
"aw-toe-tee-lism" sounds like somebody who has a yen for cars that were once on "miami vice."
i wish i knew more writers (my circle) who produced writing for their own justification, but they're in it for the fame, money, etc.
i love this minneapolis crew, by the way. enough that i want to come out and visit, even in winter.
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