Popular In Our Time, Unpopular

What Does One Prefer? An Art That Struggles To Change The Social Contract, But Fails? Or One That Seeks To Please And Amuse, And Succeeds?

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

When The War (wwi) Finally Ended It Was Necessary For Both Sides To Maintain, Indeed Even To Inflate, The Myth Of Sacrifice So That The Whole Affair Would Not Be Seen For What It Was: A Meaningless Waste Of Millions Of Lives. Logically, If The Flower Of Youth Had Been Cut Down In Flanders, The Survivors Were Not The Flower: The Dead Were Superior To The Traumatized Living. In This Way, The Virtual Destruction Of A Generation Further Increased The Distance Between The Old And The Young, Between The Official And The Unofficial.

Art Grows Out Of Modes Of Perception That Make You Feel And Think...that Hooks On To Something Deep-running In Our Natures.

It Was The Basilica Of Gossip, The Vatican Of Inside Dope.