I agree with you here - also Olson's on field poetry (forget the exact title). But it's the heart of absolutism that manifestos also offer that can be a problem.
- Alan On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Edward Picot wrote: > I'm very late coming to this, because I tend to let Netbehaviour posts > pile up and then trawl through them a week or so at a time, but this has > been a very absorbing thread, especially the exchange between Alan and > Curt about significance in art, art-teaching, etc. > > I'd just like to say a belated word in defence of manifestos. I'm quite > anti-manifesto personally, in the sense that I don't personally want to > get involved with one, or can't think of one with which I would want to > get involved; but I can see that they sometimes serve their purpose. > Radically new art sometimes has to create the critical framework from > which it should be judged, and manifestos can help with this. Being a > literary sort of person I'm thinking of things like the Imagist > manifesto, George Eliot's lengthy remarks about realism in literature in > Scenes from Clerical Life (or was it Adam Bede?) and Wordsworth and > Coleridge's preface to The Lyrical Ballads, with its plea that poetry > should be written in "language really used by men" instead of the > highly-artificial diction favoured by the Augustans. Exciting ideas, and > ideas which helped to alter the course of our literature. > > - Edward > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
