Adorno

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 + to stand in the midst of the most ultimate and most sinister of reality  
 works of art must adapt to it when they don't want to sell out as consolation. 
 radical art today means sinister art: in its basic colour black --- 

 "um inmitten des äußersten und finstersten der realität zu bestehen, müssen die 
 kunstwerke, die nicht als zuspruch sich verkaufen wollen, jenem sich  
 gleichmachen. radikale kunst heute heißt soviel wie finstere, von der  
 grundfarbe schwarz." 

            ~~~ theodor w. adorno: ästhetische theorie [1970], p. 65 ~~~

 
 read adorno himself! pynchon did when he composed his most sinister work: "it  
 is too late...."

                                            KFL *


romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com:
> nice piece in this week's New Yorker on Adorno, foax
>
> Ghost Sonata
> German music’s guru of gloom.
> by alex ross
>
> "In a world of truimphant kitsch, composition can
> justify its survival only by becoming a mirror image
> of physical and spiritual destruction."
>