no offence to anybody, but can we please stop saying
"post-modern"?
thanks
--- Julian Lawton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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