Reading Response

I feel the same as most on here do about the Mathews "Translation" piece. It is kind of a report and a paper that seems to try to persuade others on his point of translation from English to French. I'm not sure how I liked the proverbs section, but the paraphrase was quite interesting.

As for MacLows idea that art is initially and foremost about creating what is in the artists mind and bringing it to life, all other reasons are extra. Today, many people have concern with students going to school to learn art and become artists. Their concern is valid, "how can you make money doing this?" But according to MacLow, this is not a reason to create art.

Radios is a very creative piece, but any work created after this is not very creative. As we said in class, it becomes more of a formula and less unique as the pages go on and others may try to copy it.