On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:03 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ > Doesn' that have something to do with the following when it comes to the individual: - Affluence without authority breeds alienation: E. Digby Baltzell
