Subject: Re: poem because I don't know what else to do...
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 17:51:58 GMT
One thinks of Guernica, of course, & some of Auden's
pieces, yet am I alone in thinking that artistic responses
to public events are hardly ever successful? (Even these
that I once found so moving have - for me now -
the unmistakable odour of the propagandist.)
OK, I know I AM alone in maintaining that art is always
an individual enterprise & cannot truly emerge from the group.
But it seems to me that the endlessly repeated television images -
the exploding aeroplane, the fly-crawling eye of the starving
child - place each of us in a great auditorium where all intensity
of feeling is eventually dissipated in the general murmur of bored
sandwich eating - & leave us with little alternative but the dutiful
reiteration of what is communal & acceptable. And flat & dead.
Scottie B.
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