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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (2864)	5/16/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Some of it is nihilistic. Some of it is just human, no more nihilistic than King Lear or a Marx Brothers movie. It is my contention that modern art represents not propagandizing against ancient verities, but the attempt to adjust to a sense of dislocation, an attempt to find something to hold on to. I do not think that painting and sculpture comment on normative conduct, for the most part. Some of these guys were pretty normal, some were libertine, but I do not think that the biography is the art. In any case, the notion of bohemia is not peculiar to the 20th century. The reputation of the Parisian Left Bank dates to the Middle Ages, as students, poets, struggling artists, and crackpots came together in search of cheap digs, and lived a life that was less conventional than the norm. What we are left with is the question: are the myriad human responses recorded in art during the 20th century a key element worth examining in trying to come to terms with its legacy? I would say yes.......