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To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (2819)	5/15/2000 4:54:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

You may be right about "That Hideous Strength" being wrongly categorized. I am not sure, despite dubious elements, why you consider "Stranger" a failure, but I am batting so well I will not quibble. You have a point about "Canticle", but it is better art than most science fiction, and therefore worth noting, anyway. I considered "2001", "Childhood's End", and a "Clockwork Orange", but was uncertain. Still, it is a big omission. A lot of art is modern in one way or another, for example, Edward Hopper, George Bellows, and Lucien Freud (the most contemporary, and Sigmund's British grandson), and they are all figurative artists, and fairly realistic. However, Hopper creates views of the urban and town landscape that evoke freedom and loneliness, such as "Nighthawks", a very modern topic. Bellows created gritty pictures of prize fights and other urban scenes that suggested the vitality and coarseness of working class life. Freud is the least realistic, but deals with disillusionment and a sense of loss. On the other hand, Jackson Pollock creates abstractions that are virile, dynamic, and give one a sense of being present at the dawn of creation, at their best. The late canvasses of Willem de Koonig are serene, assured, and often suggest the quality of the Long Island shore on which they were painted, in its various moods. So, in sum, it is hard to talk about Modern Art as a whole, except to talk about the attempt to respond to similar pressures......