Yu's Blog: a sinking arsonist , page 79
September 20, 2013
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7:55am by china.sixty4 on Flickr.
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September 19, 2013
Camille Paglia on Susan Sontag 1993 (by wgbhstocksales)
Camille...
Camille Paglia on Susan Sontag 1993 (by wgbhstocksales)
Camille Paglia wrote the following on the Time magazine September 9 2013 issue,
"Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value. But those once powerful avant-garde gestures have lost their relevance in our diffuse and technology-saturated era, in which there is no longer an ossified high-culture establishment to rebel against. On the contrary, the fine arts are alarmingly distant or marginal to most young people today."
This paragraph reminds me a video I watched on Youtube. Camille Paglia was talking about Susan Sontag in a very upset manner, referring Susan Sontag as a bygone era, because Sontag belongs to the old European world with little knowledge of contemporary world. But as I read Susan Sontag many times, Susan Sontag could bridge High-culture and low-culture (pop culture) easily. While Paglia states on the gone-already high-culture world, she keeps lowing her position in the battle with Sontag. Sontag doesn’t need to state what is now, what is out-dated, she is talking about everything basically. But Paglia is the opposite. And the interview says everything.
September 18, 2013
The Curator's Conundrum
A photojournalism festival is boosting in...
September 17, 2013
‘A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas’
September 16, 2013
New Book Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East
An unexpected gift to the office
September 15, 2013
Was Your Chicken Nugget Made In China? It'll Soon Be Hard To Know : The Salt : NPR
September 14, 2013
Professor Allan Barr Translates Book for Top Chinese Blogger and Race Car Driver - Pomona College
September 13, 2013
millionsmillions:
Our August Top Ten proves the saying: there’s...
Our August Top Ten proves the saying: there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
On The New Yorker, Taipei is a recently published new novel regarding on an artistic young life. I haven’t start to read this book, but after read the Briefly Noted in New Yorker, I am curious to continue.
TBC…
