Roger,
>As individual writers fade into history, networks become
>fuzzy, information lost, how else are we to track, from a descriptive
>high-level POV, the tides and eddies of art?
What messy, mad flow chart would track external relations?
How are those who do
>not
>have an intimate knowledge of a genre or artist, guide themselves?
Sure, taxonomy is useful for introductions and school-rooms, but it's bound
to go by the wayside when real passion sets in...
>From the other end of the spectrum, was it not true that In The
>Beginning, people like the blue riders group, Bauhaus etc, took
>"labels" - or at least group-names - on themselves.
That is the other end, placing down a placard, acting as a groupuscle,
that's an artistic project in itself I think? Andyet, we can see that one
surrealist manifesto is not the same as another, one year at the Bauhaus was
not the same as the next.
>In the act of definition one reveals oneself, possibly.
Who's the designer who creates clothes with big transparent pockets where
you place a card with your self-description of the day on it?
Edmund
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