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laodan discovered 9 months ago- THE TROUBLE WITH YOUTH IN ART in artnet by Donald Kuspit
I am arguing, along with theorists who view creativity in terms of evolution, that there is no significant creativity without a foundation in tradition, which symbolizes all that is memorable, mature, and of demonstrable value in a society, implying that tradition can never lose meaning and will always reward reflection; and iconoclasm that questions the finality and values of tradition and challenges traditional modes of understanding, but that remains valueless unless it achieves its own finality by becoming part of and holding its own in tradition, thus gaining lasting meaning and proving its continuing value to society. I am suggesting that New Old Masterism involves containing, storing, linking and finally unifying the variety of anxious sensations of narcissistic modernism in memorable representational modes to effect a sense of self that is neither traditional nor modern, but a stable compound of both. THE TROUBLE WITH YOUTH IN ART An excellent article. I should add that this is one the the greatest pieces on art that Kuspit ever wrote. The only trouble is that the style of his writing denotes that he perhaps spends too much time immersed in reading French theorists. The substance of Kuspit's thesis is that avant-garde art failed to give a sensical illustration of reality that could possibly have a lasting effect on the observer and for that matter on society as a whole. In other words it"... offers little to remember and reflect on, and thus has no transformative effect, suggesting that it is a kind of infatuating fool's gold." After rejecting Avant-garde art for being non-sensicality, non-mature and rejecting beauty, Kuspit then positions the Avant-garde as being the opposite of the "New Old Master Art". By "New Old Master Art" Kuspit means the real art of today that means "involving the restoration of beauty and maturity, and with that sanity, to art. - art that returns to tradition even as it assimilates modern insights into color and form, enriching sensation and complicating structure -- is a new adult art. That is, it is an art for reflective and self-possessed adults rather than anxious and impulsive youth, which means that it is an art that wants to consecrate life. " This is a far way from his anterior belief that "art is dead". Kuspit now posits that art has a function to fulfill today and tomorrow. The trouble is that his definition is too much circumscribed to adolescence versus adult while mostly ignoring the real function art fulfills in society: the transmission to all of visuals signs of the present knowledge about reality that is shaping the production of our future. (my definition)
- THE TROUBLE WITH YOUTH IN ART in artnet by Donald Kuspit
