Thanks Chris
>(For me, an unsolved problem, since I agree with Trotsky's analysis of
Futurism's fascist politics and yet the progressive art produced by the
Futurist movement...)<
For me too
>art now endlessly repeats its history as does Warhol's Brillo Boxes.<
Yes, and it's not restricted to 'high' culture either, I can never suppress
my amusement at the desire of a large section of american youth even now to
look and sound like 1970s Brummies ( i.e. heavy metal)
:)
On 18 April 2012 01:45, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just a public thanks to Dave for his comments. I had forgotten Whig
> history and that seems to be worth a visit. Another anxiety on this topic
> is the Tea Party in US politics version of presentist history. I am getting
> a good list together of these rightist ideologies and it seems this is what
> is missing from my novel draft, Swindle book one. Other then that in terms
> of poetics, a more generally interesting thinking which I took for granted
> in a formal sense. The problems of the politics of form, yet again. (For
> me, an unsolved problem, since I agree with Trotsky's analysis of
> Futurism's fascist politics and yet the progressive art produced by the
> Futurist movement...)
>
> I use the term, now time, instead of presentist, which I had forgotten I
> had stolen from Gertrude Stein, but is basically a presentist poetics, a
> term which goes back to the ancient greeks, yet seems to be emerging now as
> the latest theory fashion. I could start quoting Arthur C Danto here,
> despite my disputes with his historical Hegelian idea of the end of art,
> which means that art now endlessly repeats its history as does Warhol's
> Brillo Boxes.
>
> Danto hence completely misses the critique of consumer capitalism
> presented by Warhol as mimesis which breaks with Aristotle's poetics and
> the categories of mimesis and digesis. (sp?) More later....
>
> --
> http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.**com.au/<http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/>
>
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