Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriate way to understand a work of art, argued T.S. Eliot in "Tradition and the Individual Talent," is in relation to other works of art, rather than to the artist's emotional life, to the social order of his time, or even to his creative intentions. The consequence of this perspective was the transformation of critical practice into a "close reading" which confronts the "text" and delineates its formal structures with minimal references to preconceptions drawn from extra-literary contexts...
...emotions of anxiety, love and rebellion, but directed exclusively toward other poets. In this baroque system, the task of the critic is to celebrate the Oedipal process through which a poet matures by distorting and misreading his predecessors. The result is T.S. Eliot stood upside-down--instead of the artist's effacing his personality through his encounter with the tradition, he expresses his personality entirely through that encounter--and represents the reduction to absurdity of academic criticism's self-referential perspective...
...understand Hailey, who is arguably the most popular writer of fiction in America today, it is best to shed any ideas of him as an artist who is making a creative progression from work to work. Rather, he is a writer who has hit upon a formula that has several great advantages and can be infinitely repeated. (I'm pulling for him to write his next opus about the government bureaucracy, to be entitled State, but I can also see universities, law firms, daily newspapers, the motion picture industry and shipping companies as fertile territory...
...question of the image about becoming an artist," Loeb said yesterday. "If you want to become an artist, people feel you have to be very exceptional and gifted...
...Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway. French surrealism was to a great extent defined by its indispensable enemy, French bourgeois Catholicism. Surrealism's whole mode of attack-the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation-was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe...