{"id":18414,"date":"2015-11-09T18:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=18414"},"modified":"2015-11-09T18:05:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T23:05:49","slug":"cyclomania-the-aesthetic-philosophy-of-kurt-wold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/cyclomania-the-aesthetic-philosophy-of-kurt-wold.html","title":{"rendered":"Cyclomania:  The Aesthetic Philosophy of Kurt Wold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/kurtwold.com\/KURT_WOLD\/I_Dreamt_I_Could_Play_the_Bicycle.html\">&#8220;I dreamt I could play the bicycle. &#8230;&#8221;<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zQ7qSiDQUJA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Ancient Greeks (Plato more specifically) established a hierarchy in the arts by elevating the purely contemplative art forms from the lower functional crafts. This idea struck me as I was taking down yet another of my gallery installations and jamming the mere functional remains into a dumpster. I had adopted a belief that artistic expression was a vital bridge spanning the distance between idea and reality, which in turn established the possibility for transfer of both mental insight and physical experience to the viewer &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kurtwold.com\/KURT_WOLD\/Artists_Statement.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18447\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/11\/cyclomania-the-aesthetic-philosophy-of-kurt-wold.html\/gyration-defacement-ever-since-480\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480.png\" data-orig-size=\"480,18\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gyration &amp;#038; Defacement . . .\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480-300x11.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480.png\" alt title=\"Click for the complete statement.\" width=\"480\" height=\"18\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480.png 480w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/GYRATION-DEFACEMENT-EVER-SINCE-480-300x11.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><center><em><strong>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtwold.com\/KURT_WOLD\/Back_to_KURT_WOLD_title_page.html\">Kurt Wold<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I dreamt I could play the bicycle. &#8230;&#8221; Artist&#8217;s Statement The Ancient Greeks (Plato more specifically) established a hierarchy in the arts by elevating the purely contemplative art forms from the lower functional crafts. This idea struck me as I was taking down yet another of my gallery installations and jamming the mere functional remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-media","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/human-metronome.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-4N0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18467,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18414\/revisions\/18467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}