[New-Poetry] beauty

[Mark Weiss]

Did I miss something here? Hopper's paintings are 
about bleak absence and the anxiety caused by 
absence, Barber's piece is from a child's point 
of view, its loveliness interrupted by a starkly 
terrified outburst, and Stevens is most often 
engaged with the slipperiness of what we call 
reality. But that's just a start. I read the 
article. This is some sort of neocon nonsense.

Mark

At 09:27 PM 6/10/2009, you wrote:
><http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_beauty.html>http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_beauty.html
>For artists like Hopper, Samuel Barber, and 
>Wallace Stevens, ostentatious transgression was 
>mere sentimentality, a cheap way to stimulate an 
>audience, and a betrayal of the sacred task of 
>art, which is to magnify life as it is and to 
>reveal its beauty—as Stevens reveals the beautyy 
>of “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” and 
>Barber that of Knoxville: Summer of 1915. But 
>somehow those great life-affirmers lost their 
>position at the forefront of modern culture.
>
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