Kendall Question 1

How does one apply Kendall’s “pretend theory” to music and visual art?

These two are not, at first, apparent as narrative art-forms and as artists and musician created art in the 20th century, visual art and music have lost, almost completely, their narrative structure. In a van Gogh painting, there is a story and in a jazz song, there is also a story. But we begin to lose those narratives all too quickly. Paintings become abstract and music becomes extremely experimental and I do not think that it is so easy to characterize music and art in the postmodern world.

So, do we "pretend" with these kinds of works? No, I do not think so. We do not pretend, we simply conceptualize and accept what we see, and we accept the emotions. I see this as the biggest flaw in the "pretend theory" in making music and art narrable.