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Popular In Our Time, Unpopular In His. So Runs The Stereotype Of Rejected Genius.

Why Should We Expect Modernist Taste To Be Any Smarter Than Premodernist Or Postmodernist?

Far From Affording Artists Continuous Inspiration, Mass-media Sources For Art Have Become A Dead End. They Have Combined With The Abstractness Of Institutional Art Teaching To Produce A Fine-arts Culture Given Over To Information And Not Experience. This Faithfully Echoes The Drain Of Concreteness From Modern Existence- The Reign Of Mere Unassimilated Data Instead Of Events That Gain Meaning By Being Absorbed Into The Fabric Of Imaginative Life.

But The Existence Of A Cult Does Not Mean That Images Appropriate To It Automatically Follow.

There Is Virtue In Virtuosity, Especially Today, When It Protects Us From The Tedious Spectacle Of Ineptitude.