Re: young orthodoxies

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>Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 16:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Prufrock33@aol.com
>To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
>Subject: Re: young orthodoxies
>Message-ID: <fece473c.35b10454@aol.com>
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>In a message dated 7/18/1998 11:41:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>bowman@mail.indigo.ie writes:
>
><< the wonder is usually the technical mastery rather=20
> 	than the newness of the soil being broken >>
>
>So let's just keep recycling old ideas in new technically advanced ways.

Can I suggest that you're misreading `technical mastery' here?

>Looking at the same old things in a different fashion, that is like =
saying
>nothing new exists unless we create it. I think you have been rereading =
books
>for too long. I take offense to what you say and can only say you are =
wrong in
>almost every sense of the word.

I assumed that `technical mastery' refers to our amazement at a
neophyte's grasp of style, at their technique, not that somehow (your
interpretation) the answer is to regurgitate ideas using new
technologies.  Although, of course, paradoxically, what can seem like
new, or original, or an idea expressed for the first time and searing
white hot, to a young artist, can often be yesterday's stale bread to
an -older- reader/viewer/consumer.

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