TITLE: The Spirit Of Our Time: Sensation Brought To An Extreme
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: August 04, 2016 11:51 AM
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Jack Levine, on painting as a realist in the 1950s, a time of
abstract expressionism and art as social commentary:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 The difficulty is for me to be affirmative.  I'm a little
 inhibited, as you have noticed, by not being <B>against</B>
 any of these people.  The spirit of denunciation is more in
 the spirit of our time: sensation brought to an extreme.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

Levine might just as well have been talking about today's
social and political climate.  Especially if he had had a
Facebook or Twitter account.

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(This passage comes from
<A HREF="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1872819.Conversations_With_Artists">
   Conversations with Artists</A>.
These entries also draw passages from it: [
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2016-07.html#e2016-07-19T10_32_13.htm">
   07/19</A>
|
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2016-07.html#e2016-07-27T10_58_51.htm">
   07/27</A>
|
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2016-07.html#e2016-07-31T10_19_27.htm">
   07/31</A>
].  This is my last entry drawn from the book, at least for
now.)
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