Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Art According to Zadie

CULTURE WARS
Right (Canon-Loving Recognizers of "Great Art")
versus
Left (Bard-Rejecting Multiculturalists)

  • (Zadie Smith) + (Multicultural Uplifting) = Zadie "The Bard" Smith?

Is the Left Wing Culture Army constructing the very figure against which they are fighting? Does rejecting "great art" simply mean the rejection of canonical art? Is it acceptable for sometihng to be worshipped if it is not supposed to be worshipped? That is, since the works of Zadie Smith is seen as counter-canon, does her transcendence into the terrioty of "genius" suddenly become allowed by the Left?


ART abandonment of vanity; "truthful picture of [one's] conception of the world;" a case/an analogy of morals; resisting self-imposed goodness; Zadie Smith, "We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship."

GENIUS Death of the Author; death of the White author?; No one is a genius; Zadie is a genius?


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