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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Notes on art and destruction

Art that is essentially social and purposeful, art that rejects the myths of neutrality and autonomy. The subtext of social responsibility is missing in our aesthetic models, and the challenge of the future will be to transcend the disconnectedness and separation of the aesthetic from the social that existed within modernism.

....and a strong angel picked up a rock like a large grindstone and flung it into the sea, saying, "With such clatter and vehemence shall fall this great Babylon and it shall be heard of no more".

1 comment:

Not Me said...

"todays empires, tommorrows ashes"