"...faux artistes like Ezra Pound — who was as clumsy-handed and blatantly untalented as Jackson Pollock in painting — found favor with “progressive” academics..."
Yes. IMHO 1910 Modernism was leftist and nihilistic. It removed representation from painting, rhyme from poetry, melody from music, story from novels... The intention was to gut the arts and replace core their with Marxism and a void. And it was part of a larger effort to destroy culture and civilization, so as to replace them with totalitarianism.
"To fill a gap, insert the thing that caused it. Block it up with other and ‘twill yawn the more. You cannot solder an abyss with air," Emily Dickinson wrote in a poem 1862. I wonder if some future generation will succeed in replacing the truth and beauty that the leftists/modernists tore from the heart of art.
Until that time, if it should occur, we are like monks in the monastery preserving and transmitting the sacred texts with our own commentary down the ages as best we can.
"...faux artistes like Ezra Pound — who was as clumsy-handed and blatantly untalented as Jackson Pollock in painting — found favor with “progressive” academics..."
Yes. IMHO 1910 Modernism was leftist and nihilistic. It removed representation from painting, rhyme from poetry, melody from music, story from novels... The intention was to gut the arts and replace core their with Marxism and a void. And it was part of a larger effort to destroy culture and civilization, so as to replace them with totalitarianism.
"To fill a gap, insert the thing that caused it. Block it up with other and ‘twill yawn the more. You cannot solder an abyss with air," Emily Dickinson wrote in a poem 1862. I wonder if some future generation will succeed in replacing the truth and beauty that the leftists/modernists tore from the heart of art.
Until that time, if it should occur, we are like monks in the monastery preserving and transmitting the sacred texts with our own commentary down the ages as best we can.