08-26-2017, 06:36 AM
Not nearly what that discussion deserves, but: fashion. Shakespeare goes out of fashion; Shakespeare comes back into fashion. Likewise kitsch was once fashionable, now we have different kitsch. The artist's hope is to surf the wave, though he may think he is the wave. It will come back up again after he's gone (and his paintings will sell, too late). So was he the wave, or is it the people who now appreciate and merchandise what he did?
Thinking about some obscure 1950s Left poets who had a vogue and are now forgotten. Their work is not just good of its time or of its kind, it's actually good. There may be good in Stalin's or Hitler's poets - what a thought! What fashion will it take to rediscover them?
Quality is always a correspondence (unity or contrast) with something else. What, then, is integrity? A true correspondence, perhaps.
Thinking about some obscure 1950s Left poets who had a vogue and are now forgotten. Their work is not just good of its time or of its kind, it's actually good. There may be good in Stalin's or Hitler's poets - what a thought! What fashion will it take to rediscover them?
Quality is always a correspondence (unity or contrast) with something else. What, then, is integrity? A true correspondence, perhaps.
Non-practicing atheist