All that will be arises from all that came before.
It is foresight that envisions and creates the leading edge of theory and practice, called, in the arts, the avant-garde. Yet regardless of perspective, it does not exist without foundation. Eliot's poetry evokes by allusion as well as by juxtaposition; William Burroughs' fragmentary prose delineates classic themes of human conflict through the imagery of surrealistic film noir. Andy Warhol's visual art frames a modern world view while encompassing artistic expressions of time past. The unique experimental and ambient recordings of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno owe as much or more to the unexpected and under-appreciated minimalist response to atonality in classical music as to the history of pop and rock music.
Progress cannot allow itself to be bound and gagged by subjection to immediacy, or mere novelty, any more than by false sentimentality or nostalgia.
It is foresight that envisions and creates the leading edge of theory and practice, called, in the arts, the avant-garde. Yet regardless of perspective, it does not exist without foundation. Eliot's poetry evokes by allusion as well as by juxtaposition; William Burroughs' fragmentary prose delineates classic themes of human conflict through the imagery of surrealistic film noir. Andy Warhol's visual art frames a modern world view while encompassing artistic expressions of time past. The unique experimental and ambient recordings of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno owe as much or more to the unexpected and under-appreciated minimalist response to atonality in classical music as to the history of pop and rock music.
Progress cannot allow itself to be bound and gagged by subjection to immediacy, or mere novelty, any more than by false sentimentality or nostalgia.
