The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
Alternative to What? | Thomas Frank
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practices. The bohemians (and Freud) may have been the inspiration, but it was the marketers who funded the coup against conformity, formulating authenticity as the new social imaginary.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
- "Pater said beauty is impossible without some element of strangeness; the potential for beauty was built into his own “strange webs” of significance, spun in such writerly fashion around the object with which he was in dialogue. Criticism is one way to be the spider, paying out silk, both navigating and creating the web as one goes. What defines ... See more
Elizabeth Schambelan • Elizabeth Schambelan on criticism - Artforum International
The new enemy was boredom, in the sense of lack of drama. The new currency was fame.
Renata Adler • After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
Can great art come from conformity? And what is the purpose of being an artist if we deny our unique personal point of view?
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
