[New-Poetry] beauty

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From: Mark Weiss <junction at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:25 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] beauty


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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