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Fascinating--this seems line something that would have emerged out of the post-modern canon rather than ancient China. I wonder how many other singular works of
by briga 8y ago
Fascinating--this seems line something that would have emerged out of the post-modern canon rather than ancient China. I wonder how many other singular works of art were lost either because they were too radical for their time or because the author happened to be born female. For that matter, how many artists working today will only be recognized by historians hundreds or thousands of years from now?
- pasabagi 8y agoOne of the peculiar things about postmodernity is, if you go back in time, things get more postmodern, not less. Rabelais, for instance. Perhaps, this is because artists don't make up canons. Historians and academics do - so the artists are often bad fits to whatever canon they end up in. I have to say though, I'm very jealous of the chinese character set when it comes to writing. You can do a lot of cool things when every word fits into an even square.