andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> The problem isn't that some of the new
> painting/sculpture or music, for that matter, etc.
> isn't beautiful or moving or terrifying or deep, at
> least as much as Jackson Pollack, [clip]
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> Bets are that Donne called this one long ago, "Tis all
> in peeces, all coherence gone." Yeats said the same
> sort of thing in his borderline modernist Slouching
> Towards Bethlehem: the center cannot hold. There is no
> center.
The explanation is demographic and (vulgar economist) economics. More people with more leisure and access to world of art. Hence too much damn good, even very great, stuff around so there is no way to create a sharply visible elite. Hence also the pathetic attempts of so many to put down much (obviously) good/great art/music/writing as inferior. ives them a false sense of being defenders of the "really" great.
Carrol