Mary Rose’s Reviews > Has Modernism Failed? > Status Update
Mary Rose
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“Modernism has thrown up many aggressively absurd forms of art that simply cannot be understood outside their corrosive relation to the contradictions that capitalist society poses for the artist: namely, the fact that art’s value tends to be defined, not by its spiritual, intellectual, or emotional content, but by its economic worth.”
— Mar 22, 2022 08:39AM
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Mary Rose
is on page 127 of 160
"Only with hindsight can we now see that tradition and authority may be necessary, even to make a genuine avant-garde possible—in order to provide something to revolt against. […] The artist finds himself under continuous pressure to be modern, but discovers that to be modern now is to be traditional […] Artists are finding that the only way to make something new is to borrow from the past."
— Mar 24, 2022 10:16AM
Mary Rose
is on page 39 of 160
“If the artist’s role has become marginal in modern Western society, it is not because modern art is intrinsically defective; it is because our society has divested art of all but aesthetic value, just as it has deprived us of meaningful spiritual experience.”
— Mar 22, 2022 08:23AM
