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

[Martin Hinks]

Sounds like a crude, and contentious, paraphrase to me...

On Feb 8, 2008 5:13 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. "
>