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

[Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling]

Art critic Jonathan Jones does not quote Pynchon in his quote in the
Guardian Unlimited article,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/08/economics

"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," so you're not going to find a
Pynchon quote to match his contention.

Though I can't think of any Pynchon quote to support him, I also can't think
of one to directly support my supposition that Pynchon probably has plenty
of respect for the social realism and other art that was produced during the
depression, but ymmv.

Henry Mu
http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm

On Feb 8, 2008 12:13 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. "
>



-- 
AsB4,

Henry
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