Sunday, January 12, 2003

Arts & Humanities Aesthetic Revolutions

The aesthetic revolutions of the 20th century, in painting, music and literature, reflected the galvanizing cataclysms of the times - the world wars, the Holocaust, the nuclear peril. Now, when the world seems more fragile, dangerously fragmented and morally ambiguous than ever, may not be the time for more form-smashing revolution in the arts. The great artists of our time are like spiders, poised on a web that spans the past as well as the precarious present. They sense vibrations, from now and then, and spin out glittering new strands of connection.
· Revolutions [San Francisco Chronicle]

Explaining The Younger Generation
The young-20s attitude is something of a puzzle to older people. As media stories became more and more ridiculous and commercialism became more and more oppressive, this construct seemed to work. But, now, we are at war..." And we're paralyzed.
· Evolutions [The Simon]

Has Human life no more meaning than the life of slime mould?
· Re-Creations [New Humanist]