On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:52 -0700, poldy wrote:
>In article ,
> Viking wrote:
>
>> the culture
>> seems soulless and dead. By culture in this case, I mean painting
>> (masses of opaque black/white/grey forms), opera (either stark and
>> blank--sets of concrete slabs or a single chair--or absurdist--singers
>> dressed in bee suits or wearing Mickey Mouse ears), modern writing
>> (stark and bleak), music (stark and harsh), plays, and so on.
>>
>> Because of this inability to address the past and move on, the taboo
>> nature of its very history and traditions, this culture seems stark
>> and rootless; in a word, funereal. Nearly all aspects of history are
>> taboo, and cutting themselves off from any sense of tradition has
>> left culture drifting and absurdist.
>
>
>Didn't Nietsche or Schiller complain about German culture in the 19th
>century?
So did Frederick the Great. He wrote in French.
>
>Not the same specific complaints about stark or spare Modernist forms
>that you describe, but how pedestrian or uninspiring it was.
Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen |