PO-PO-mo-JO (was PO's Vision)
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 25 21:43:46 CDT 2000
James Kyllo wrote:
>
> >From interview with Brian Eno in Wired magazine:
>
> An artist is now a curator. An artist is now much more seen as a connector
> of things, a person who scans the enormous field of possible places for
> artistic attention, and says, What I am going to do is draw your attention
> to this sequence of things.
The history of art, or the story of art, or the narrative of
art, or the narrative of curators, or whatever term we want
to use, is replete with precedents of "curating." Art did
not suddenly become global or broaden itself at the end of
the 20th century. Such currents in Art, all the arts and
sciences and disciplines reflects the ongoing convergence of
modern and pre-modern, Eastern and Western Civilizations,
and the continuous transformation of all human activities by
global or worldwide political, economic, cultural, forces.
How have postmodernism's definitions of, say Art, or
Modernism, or Postmodernism itself, elucidated and
determined this so called broadening and curatorship?
Should Japan, as culture, be considered the ultimate
showcase or museum?
T.S. Eliot's plays are based on Greek plays and so are
Freud's major theories. Both men broadened our views of the
20th century. Some one mentioned Santayana, talk about a
cosmopolitan artist. Before Freud, didn't Schopenhauer and
Nietzche, bring Hinduism and Buddhism, and other Eastern
religions into a common purview of discussion, again with
the Classical Greek and Christian traditions? Doesn't Hegel
trace this broadening, this intercultural exchange, East and
West? Didn't 18th century philosophers introduce a "New
World" that was global, intercultural, broadened? The
Renaissance? What about those Victorians? Oh yes, Hardy
began with Greek literature and after his bold broadening in
Jude the Obscure, never wrote another novel. Some one
mentioned Leibnitz, what was he up to besides tossing cannon
balls? Didn't he turn to China? He searched for a "principle
of all principles", and for what? Why to reconcile the
paradigms of the ancient, medieval, and modern,
philosophers, not to mention scientists, alchemists, and
cabalists. What about Wagner? Picaso? Modernism is NOT what
postmodernism claims, not even close. Modernism in
literature, for example, involves a radical rethinking about
of the relationship between fictions and reality. Its roots
are EXCEPTIONALLY broad because it is a result of cultural
broadening and the cross-fertization between cultures,
between art forms and between disciplines.
I think Eno is a great example of Modernism's
eclecticism...oh me/oh my/perhaps my brains...
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