So okay, it's a tad melodramatic and unlikely, but The liaison, mutilates the corpse but the two inexplicably resume their Murder-this time a middle aged man kills his young lover in order to preserve The central event of the story is once again an incomprehensible Hate this book, the way I did Beloved (see Orrin's Tell the avant garde that no one followed them and the experiment, havingĪll of which brings us to Jazz by Toni Morrison. Unlike his most critically acclaimed work refers to one of the world'sĮnduring literary masterpieces.

Is his Don Quixote, a fairly conventional representational piece which Not a living room in America with a Pollack on the wall and the only Picasso Review) or Finnegan's Wake from cover to cover.

Of the 20th Century, but nobody has ever read either Joyce may be considered the greatest author That we see now, where the public shuns the very product that the elites You are left with the oddly bifurcated culture Value, which the critics largely have done, you lose the capacity to differentiate

Once you abandon objective standards for determining Jackson Pollack's paint splatters and musical innovations like dissonanceĪnd atonality as legitimate advances in the arts, it pretty much opened Of course, the best illustrations of this revolutionĬame early on in the process after the intelligentsia accepted James Joyce's Proficiency, narrative structure and clarity have given way to idiosyncrasyĪnd abstraction. No longer important to these artists to convey their meanings, technical The artist/author and the audience is expected to study the individualĬreator in order to try to understand their works. The themes and messages of art are now unique to Modernity has replaced such universal art with the subjective, the self-indulgentĪnd the abstruse. That they are accessible to the general public by reference to our common Have been consumed in dissecting the character of Hamlet-but it does mean This does not rob them of theirĭepth or their rich textures-merely think of all the reams of paper that Share in the artists vision and we can readily comprehend the fundamental When we read Shakespeare or look atĪ painting by Rembrandt or listen to music by Bach, we can feel that we That they and their audience shared a Culture which partook of a definite Artists and authors used to be able to assume

Years has been the replacement of structure and universality by lyricismĪnd individualism. One of the most lamentable developments in the Arts over the past hundred

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