From time to time the arts must endure a collectivist mentality.
But this is nothing more than a consequence of expanding horizons, a situation that lends itself to the consolidation of power among social, academic, and political groups bound by common interests and attitudes, but lacking, in their numbers, the virtues of individuality.
Predictably, such a way of thinking engenders a dull, insular advocacy of mediocrity with an utterly entrenched resistance to the distinctive and imaginative.
Some artists, musicians, theorists, and composers, enjoined to conformity, will succumb to cultural orientations of this nature. For the rest, to do so is out of the realm of possibilities; it is the work that is of paramount importance.
But this is nothing more than a consequence of expanding horizons, a situation that lends itself to the consolidation of power among social, academic, and political groups bound by common interests and attitudes, but lacking, in their numbers, the virtues of individuality.
Predictably, such a way of thinking engenders a dull, insular advocacy of mediocrity with an utterly entrenched resistance to the distinctive and imaginative.
Some artists, musicians, theorists, and composers, enjoined to conformity, will succumb to cultural orientations of this nature. For the rest, to do so is out of the realm of possibilities; it is the work that is of paramount importance.
