If you cede the territory of everything after [insert historical event] to the opposition, arguing that it OUGHT to have gone otherwise, you have only announced that you have lost, permanently. A worldview must be able to incorporate EVERYTHING- or else it is useless.
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This has been my point about Art today- if you reject the developments of art in the 20th century totally, then you have lost- you're done- for you, art is over & gone away with forever. If you cannot appreciate the progression of every era as a holistic panorama, you're dead.
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I blame the lack of survey courses (like Paglia says) for this rampant idiocy. You are not a Traditionalist if you draw a line in the sand on a timeline- what you are is a Renaissance Fair nerd.
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"Buuu...buuuut we can't just shamelessly reproduce the works of the past such and such art movement without any cultural or metaphysical context whatsoever???" T. Modern trad anti-aesthetics.
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