Borges' opinions

[Charles Albert]

"Degas was the greatest artist in 300 years"



Yikes.....

love,
cfa

On 1/22/07, Steven <mcquaryq at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hard for me to see Borges as a macho man.  His style was simple and clear
> but not Hemmingwayish at all.  Imo.  His form could be Baroque and his
> thought a bit ornate...but I wouldn't crucify him for his hidebound racial
> opinions -- he was an author and he didn't use his talent to cause a
> Holocaust.  Don't we all forgive certain great artists of personal foibles
> and even grossly base opinions?  I do.  Degas was the greatest artist in 300
> years, a master of line, tone, color, psychology, composition, touch, etc.
> There wasn't an artistic sense he didn't have in spades.  But he was an
> incorrigible anti-Semite.  I was shocked to learn that, but got over it.
> You have to! He and Cezanne both proved themselves incredibly ignorant
> anti-Dreyfus-ists -- so what.  A hundred years later the moron Himmler is
> being described by Norman effing Mailer as having an 'original mind' and I
> can't enjoy Degas or Borges?
>
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> On Jan 20, 2007, at 6:36 PM, rich wrote:
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> sounds like a macho dickhead
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> never was a big fan of all that knife fighting and bullfighting shite
> sensibility
> rich
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> Steven
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