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Because I find regressive calls for a past aesthetic tiresome, predictable, and cliched. We do not live in the past, we live in the present. Nostalgia is fun bu
by tomc1985 5y ago
Because I find regressive calls for a past aesthetic tiresome, predictable, and cliched. We do not live in the past, we live in the present. Nostalgia is fun but a highly overrated feeling, and the paintings he references are idealized depictions of life at that time. Not to mention how WASPy and Western-centric it is, I'm sure someone from Asia, Africa, or even some latin state, might feel very different.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoI think you're getting too caught in the specifics. There are "modern" kitchens in residential spaces across the world, and even if the details in them may vary a bit by culture and geography, they all look very different from the painting in the article. Yes, we do live in the present, but there's no inevitability about the present. The fact that during the 20th century we invented a set of new materials and machining techniques does not mean that we have to be using them today - that's a choice we make based on a variety of different factors. If you look at any magazine/book on contemporary kitchen remodels, you will find some that are closer to the painting than the photograph (and many more that are closer to the photograph). The idea that the aesthetics embodied by the painting are inherently non-modern is, I think, a mistake.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoA WASPy criticism seems to imply that it’s bad to write about one’s own culture unless one first acknowledge all the cultures of the world.
- tomc1985 5y agoIt's bad in the sense that it is unoriginal, trite, and predictable. It is essentially advocating for a populist status quo.