Dissing emotional insecuritry is good when you're inemotional secure- guess
that's why I'm being dissed on this mailing list.
Best
Yvonne
> From: "George P. Landow" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:52:25 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [WDL] : the insecurity of great artists
>
> On Jul 16, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Susan Pritchard wrote:
>
>> Almost all artists are insecure with good reason, having neither
>> salaries, tenure or company pensions.. Fashions change, Patrons,
>> Editors, curators look for 'new' talent, grant funding bodies make
>> 'cuts'.
>
> Yes, but isn't this very much a contemporary matter? Counter examples
> wealthy artists: W. Stevens, Montaigne, Sidney
>>
>> Look at the last few self portraits of Rembrant..self portraits
>> because he couldn't afford to pay a model. He died bankrupt, having
>> lost even his own collection of pictures and his face speaks of the
>> most profound loss and grief.
> yes, but where's the emotonal insecurity here?
>>
>> Some artists have been mentally ill, some neurotic and the rest just
>> suffer 'ordinary human misery' (Freud's phrase) like the rest of
>> humanity; the main difference being is that the majority of people
>> bottle their emotions up or brew feelings into poison wine for their
>> enemies.
>>
>> Artists routinely make lemonade out of their personal lemons, selling
>> and sharing the good stuff where they can, visible to the discerning
>> eye or ear.
>>
>> You may scream inside..Munch put his onto canvas...others put theirs
>> in words or music
>
> My point was that we are making universal claims about something that
> appears very limited to the last few centuries in western society ‹
> that's all ‹ and some great artist's don't fit the bill.
>
> g
>
>>
>> 'Safe despair it is that raves
>> Agony is frugal
>> Puts itself severe away
>> For its own perusal'
>> Emily Dickinson
> George P. Landow
> Professor of English and the History of Art
> Brown University
>
> www.landow.com
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