Pynchon on art and the depression/ recession!( Jones sez)...from a Guardian piece today, 2/8

[David Morris]

I searched the Google Books "V" and found no such statement, nor
anything like it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=jqS2pmUIfOAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=v+pynchon&ei=EYysR7DMOY_6zQTu8-2dBg&sig=krfZtuTJ00zFaHxfh8Tl1Y3RGr8#PPP1,M1

On Feb 8, 2008 10:38 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> One theory is that the best art comes not during a period of recession, but
> in its prosperous aftermath. "The great artists of abstract expressionism,
> such as Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, were young during the great
> depression, and that had a great influence in giving their work emotional
> depth," says art critic Jonathan Jones. "Thomas Pynchon said in his novel V
> that, after the war, the depression went inside, and that is true of their
> work. They were producing art in a time of prosperity, but shaped by the
> depression. "