Delacroix wrote about what he considered to be the "classic" ideal. For him it was the capacity of an artwork to evoke both the past and the future in the present. That would be the opposite of what you quote below. It's very tough to outhink Delacroix. Few people have read his Journals but I would encourage it as a wonderful opportunity to learn about modernism at its birth from one of the great minds of the 19C. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, August 30, 2012 4:50:27 AM Subject: "The work of art, as I said a moment ago, becomes in the modernized context one of the moments of arrested development, of stasis or stillness, which seems temporarily at least to stay the hand of relentless and accelerating revolution." "The work of art, as I said a moment ago, becomes in the modernized context one of the moments of arrested development, of stasis or stillness, which seems temporarily at least to stay the hand of relentless and accelerating revolution." http://books.google.com/books?id=MWSo04n0Vp4C&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22The+wo rk+of+art,+as+I+said+a+moment+ago,+becomes+in+the+modernized+context+one+of+t he+moments+of+arrested+development,+of+stasis+or+stillness,+which+seems+tempo rarily+at+least+to+stay+the+hand+of+relentless+and+accelerating+revolution.%2 2&source=bl&ots=Pcga8UZCEw&sig=A-WA_7mIaEzj1rfyAJYP8qRLQcc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SDY_ UJ-hK-7VigLmhIHwDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20work%20of%20art%2C%20 as%20I%22&f=false
