{"id":12620,"date":"2019-08-06T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=12620"},"modified":"2022-12-31T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T21:55:00","slug":"taboo-faction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/12620","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic factionalism or personal catharsis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnger is a very limiting emotion. There\u2019s not much you can do with it. There\u2019s no hope in it.\u201d
\n\u2014 Wendell Berry
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There was a time when the arts may have held the capacity to alter the world around us. From time to time, music probably has<\/a>. Perhaps the dramatic arts, too. The oral and written arts of language certainly have<\/a>, and they remain highly consequential, but the notion that those engaged in artistic \u201cvisual statements\u201d can affect society is an illusion. The early 20th-century avant-garde believed they could, and maybe they did to some limited extent, while the attention of a less distracted elite was seized. At any rate, this innovative class took what they had absorbed, rejected much of it, and cultivated the vocabulary of the modern art forms which influence the bulk of what artists do today. And almost all of what we do now has very little if any catalytic effect on evolving civilization \u2014 especially if it was overtly intended to do just that. But make no mistake about it, \u201cmessage art\u201d has been, is, and can be a significant catharsis<\/em> for creative individuals. Rest assured that it will reinforce solidarity among people of like mind. It can also be relied upon to irritate many of the others.
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Taboo Faction<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage catharsis by J A Dixon
\n8.125 x 11.5 inches
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\u201cAnger is a very limiting emotion. There\u2019s not much you can do with it. There\u2019s no hope in it.\u201d \u2014 Wendell Berry   There was a time when the arts may have held the capacity to alter the world around us. From time to time, music probably has. Perhaps the dramatic arts, too. The oral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,251,27,168,29,24,13,18,63,46,26,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}