Confidence Is The Prize Given To The

Essentially, Perspective Is A Form Of Abstraction. It Simplifies The Relationship Between Eye, Brain And Object. It Is An Ideal View, Imagined As Being Seen By A One-eyed, Motionless Person Who Is Clearly Detached From What He Sees. It Makes A God Of The Spectator, Who Becomes The Person On Whom The Whole World Converges, The Unmoved Onlooker.

Transportation Made Sublimation Literal. It Conveyed Evil To Another World.

A Gustave Courbet Portrait Of A Trout Has More Death In It Than Rubens Could Get In A Whole Crucifixion.

What Has Our Culture Lost In 1980 That The Avant-garde Had In 1890? Ebullience, Idealism, Confidence, The Belief That There Was Plenty Of Territory To Explore, And Above All The Sense That Art, In The Most Disinterested And Noble Way, Could Find The Necessary Metaphors By Which A Radically Changing Culture Could Be Explained To Its Inhabitants.

There's No Geist Like The Zeitgeist.