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Category: List of articles

Abstract convention

Posted on January 13, 2017August 15, 2017 by John

There is an increasing number of observations demonstrating something of the emerging of common sense about the established art history of the last century, as found in an article on the website of ‘The Smart Set’: Quote: 20th-century modernism marked the transition from a world of regional civilizational artistic traditions to the bright, shiny, new,…

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Permitting waste in the realm of verse

Posted on January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 by John

The Literary Review newsletter of 2/11/16  held a review of a biography of Jonathan Swift, exposing one of the striking cultural prejudices of the last century, which still hangs in the air of our own times: “In his everyday life Jonathan Swift was fastidiously clean. In his writing, however, he was capable of what was…

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Predicaments of pluralism

Posted on January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 by John

Pluralism and freedom of discussion are of fundamental importance for culture; where societies become dominated by populism and / or rightwing extremism, this pluralism is under serious threat, and the arts will become politicized, open to blackmailing and manipulation, of which history offers many examples. In the Western world, the freedom of pluralism is under…

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A new movement?

Posted on January 9, 2017August 29, 2017 by John

While working on an extension of a chapter in my book, as a preparation for its 2nd edition by Dover – it is the chapter where a number of new tonal composers are mentioned by way of examples – there appear to be many more of such composers than imagined before. One wonders who else…

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Rise of authoritarianism

Posted on December 4, 2016January 10, 2017 by John

Authoritarian, rightwing regimes who want to increase their power over society as much as possible, use the disguise of ‘defending traditional values’ to achieve their aim. We are reminded of the tactics of the nazis in interbellum Germany, manipulating the volatile and traumatized population, especially the masses who lost their jobs, their security, their sense…

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