Vacation Backentry Two
Mar. 21st, 2003 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinue[jotted down while travelling]
Wartime's effect on art - art as a sedative instead of a hallucinogen, to condense rather than expand the world. Don't make people think - keep them calm. 40s (WWII) - pinups, movie romances. 60s (Vietnam) - big-eyed kids, flowers. Still protest songs because people still thought they had influence, but these songs were in a soothing folk-music style. Real art resurfaces after the war: 1950s literary Group 54, beat poetry, etc. (out of feeling of guilt). War art is ultimately weaker art because it reduces us to one of two themes: war or peace. And people will have an impossible time seeing it postmodernly (independent of current conflict), deadening its influence.
Wartime's effect on art - art as a sedative instead of a hallucinogen, to condense rather than expand the world. Don't make people think - keep them calm. 40s (WWII) - pinups, movie romances. 60s (Vietnam) - big-eyed kids, flowers. Still protest songs because people still thought they had influence, but these songs were in a soothing folk-music style. Real art resurfaces after the war: 1950s literary Group 54, beat poetry, etc. (out of feeling of guilt). War art is ultimately weaker art because it reduces us to one of two themes: war or peace. And people will have an impossible time seeing it postmodernly (independent of current conflict), deadening its influence.
