cf: http://playdamage.org/manifest-o-matic
>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 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
