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> ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting Marathon, by Bungie Studios (and frequently on the
by shadowgovt 2y ago
> ask yourself the work of which contemporary novelist, poet, composer, or painter you are eagerly awaiting
Marathon, by Bungie Studios (and frequently on the composer side the work of Christopher Tin), but who's counting?
More seriously: the nature of art has changed and this article doesn't seem willing to accept that change. Art can be the work of one creative talent, but it can also be the collective work of a whole army of people acting on a consensus goal. And right now, a lot of the resources of art creation are tied up in large-scale, multidisciplinary projects: movies, videogames, studio music.
Saying you're waiting for a movie to come out is precisely as much a statement about anticipating a work of high art as saying you're interested in what Dostoevsky will write.
- turnsout 2y agoExactly. It's also a complete self-own. You know who can name several painters with highly anticipated upcoming shows? Literally anyone who actually cares about painting. Sometimes (often) when people get older, they stop listening to new music, reading new books, or going to art openings. Then, slowly, they start assuming that the world is the problem. That art has gotten worse, or there's somehow less of it. But of course the thing that has become boring is the person.
- FeteCommuniste 2y agoThe author is 88 years old (not that advanced age is always a barrier to liking new things, but it frequently doesn't help) and has been a reactionary for decades. The magazine publishing this is, as noted on the page header, Catholic and thus also invested in the vision of "cultural decline" that the article expresses.