Dear Douglas,
neo-baroque is the rediscovery, exaltation and
re-evaluation of the kitsch, it is the attribution to
its codes of a scheme of values and the re-activation
of them in the contemporaneity, it is believing in the
poewer of the false, the artefact as being more
meaningful of the true. This raghly: Helton John
crying at the funeral of Versace is neo-baroque,
(this superficially already gives an example), to have
a museum of the false (as in my town, Salerno) is
baroquesque...Tate Modern in London is neo-baroque in
its delayed effects of the media...German neo-idealism
is a form itself of the neo-baroque...performative
arts when too self-conscious are neo-baroque...what
neo-baroque is not is the strenuous claim for
autenticity, for the self, for psychoanalysis...and so
on...neo-baroque is when in a society poetry, arts,
music become more poweful than the effects produced
by the industry and by the values connected to working
class struggle...the neo-baroque is in itself a parody
of the baroque so it has as well critical potentials
since it reveals its on tools and aims having
antecedents,,, and so on,... but I am making myself
ready to go to a party, and I will have to be there in
half an hour: I would gladly retake the conversation
when I come back home later. Neo-baroque is also
politically incorrect since it stresses contrssts and
exploits them (neo-baroque is when art makes the
world, as it is almost the case now, not viceversa).
The mannerism of our daily communications with their
fake language and false aims is neo-baroque, so we are
on the right path.
Erminia
--- Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Come on ERminia explain neo-baroque! At four this
> morning I
> explained postmodernism to myself and it didnt hurt.
> Although
> cos I didnt sleep last night I dont know if I can
> stay awake
> to have G-d explained on Channel 4 at 8 o'clock.
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto:
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> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
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>
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, erminia wrote:
>
> > Having as an literary and aesthetic aim to be
> > post-modern nowadays is a meaningless effort and
> it
> > would make own work terribly outdated.
> >
> > Postmodernity is no longer on, since it has
> already
> > become an abused and stale subject of studies.
> > It has in fact by now been already replaced by
> > activist neo-baroque poetry.
> >
> > this is the new European trend guys. how to become
> > neo-baroque?: just follow me...
> >
> > Thank you for ignoring systematically my mails: it
> is
> > a sign that my work is authentically a neo-baroque
> > fenomenon to which people do not know how to
> respond
> > (joking!).
> >
> > ermi
> >
> >
> > --- Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > What rates can you negotiate for me Joseph?
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 5:05 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Postmodern?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Being post-modern is more of a condition to be
> > > negotiated than a choice to
> > > > be made.
> > > > ======================
> > > > Joseph Duemer
> > > > School of Liberal Arts, 5750
> > > > Clarkson University
> > > > Potsdam NY 13699
> > > > 315.268.3967
> > > > ======================
> > > >
> >
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