“ But I keep ending up in rooms with people who want to seed new -isms into the world.”
Perhaps Marc Chagall can point to a way out.
“You cannot explain me with ‘isms.’ That is very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.”
The direct, lived experience of the present as an ever expanding creative act. The hippies were on to something in their be-here-now rebellion against the over intellectual Zeitgeist of the 1950s and early 1960s.
NB: Much of the Author’s thesis centers around a concept presented more succinctly by the famous American postmodern philosopher Cathy Guisewite in a Sunday comic in the 1980s, I believe, where she posited the concept of “abstract materialism”, i.e. not really needing/purchasing a thing, but rather the idea of the thing.
Perhaps Marc Chagall can point to a way out.
“You cannot explain me with ‘isms.’ That is very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.”
The direct, lived experience of the present as an ever expanding creative act. The hippies were on to something in their be-here-now rebellion against the over intellectual Zeitgeist of the 1950s and early 1960s.
NB: Much of the Author’s thesis centers around a concept presented more succinctly by the famous American postmodern philosopher Cathy Guisewite in a Sunday comic in the 1980s, I believe, where she posited the concept of “abstract materialism”, i.e. not really needing/purchasing a thing, but rather the idea of the thing.