> I can understand all that from an art standpoint...but what about from
>an overall cultural standpoint?
>I mean, it appears to me that this is a
>postmodern world (or, at least, US culture is).
No denying it, but the question was 'is the natural progression of modernism
to move into post-modernism' and I'd say no.
What I was trying to say wasn't so much about art as about the way that
throughout the century, the serious modernists have existed alongside the
pranksters, self-publicists, boundary breakers, pastiche artists, etc. That
they exist as two side-by-side choices.
>original ideas entering any of these areas. In fact, there seems to be a
>lack of original ideas anywhere in society.
Similar thoughts were, again, expressed in the 1870s . . . thinking about
it, the norm probably is for there to be a lack of original ideas in
mainstream culture (otherwise we wouldn't keep harking back to the 60s all
the time - the brief interlude between mass ignorance and mass apathy).
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