“Academics have long dismissed Symbolism as conservative. Even in the 1890s, Symbolism was criticized for its elitism and traditionalism. Yet a little more than a hundred years ago, all roads led to Symbolism. Today, Symbolism is the good art of bad ideas that people rarely know or otherwise choose to ignore.”
Tag: 12.06
Artists At The Movies
Viusal artists have long played with film. But more artists are finding themselves behind conventional movie-making. “In most cases, their movies are extensions of their usual work, with one difference: the films are based on screenplays that have a fairly conventional narrative bent. They also feature seasoned actors and technical crews, and mean to reach audiences beyond museums and film festivals.”
Hollywood’s Complicated Relationship With Artists
“The movies have always loved artists, especially famous ones. Vulgar studio heads who made the money that kept them in caviar and Cuban cigars by lowballing their audiences could periodically redeem themselves by making a classy flick about the kind of real artist they themselves might be if they made classy flicks about real artists.”
So Much For SASE
There are time-tested rituals for submitting manuscripts to literary magazines, including the “self addressed stamped envelope.” But “last August, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) unveiled Submission Manager, an online software system that makes submitting manuscripts a cheaper, less protracted process for writers, while offering greater efficiency to literary journal staffs.”
A Case For Teaching Art
“The place of the arts in American general education has always been a tenuous one. This being a pragmatic nation, our schools have naturally focused on areas deemed to be of practical value. And since the arts have long been regarded as having no practical utility, they have naturally been marginalized in public education.”
Art – The Political Animal
How much of a role ought politics to have in art history? TJ Clark has made a career on this issue. But then again…