One of the defining features of early modernism was the need for artists to find or create audiences for their art. wc
________________________________ From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, January 12, 2013 2:04:00 AM Subject: Re: Can art exist without authority? On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > - *Good art weathers* the ages because once in so often a man of > intelligence commands the mass to adore it. > > *Ezra* Pound > Can it be inferred from the following that culture (and therefore art) cannot continue to exist without authority?: - Faced with the weakened authority of the Catholic Church, governmental structures, and classical humanism, culture became increasingly unstable, and the locus of authority shifted from these cultural constructs to the individual." http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9840223/
