{"id":4271,"date":"2010-10-01T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:24:36","slug":"pertinent-question-are-our-writers-as-lousy-as-our-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/pertinent-question-are-our-writers-as-lousy-as-our-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pertinent Question:  Are Our Writers As Lousy As Our Bankers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Are Our Writers As Lousy As Our Bankers?<\/p>\n<p>by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash  <\/p>\n<p>There is a certain kind of art made here in America for a lofty but banal purpose: to enliven the contemporary educated mind.<\/p>\n<p>You know: the mind of you and me, dear 3QD reader &#8212; the NPR listener, the New Yorker reader, the English major, the filmgoer who laps up subtitles, the gallery-goer who can tell a Koons from a Hirst.<\/p>\n<p>This art is superior to the cascading pile of blockbuster kitsch-dreck-crap that passes for pop culture, but only superior by a few pips.<\/p>\n<p>This art sure ain&#8217;t Picasso, or Joyce, or Rossellini, or the Beatles, or even Sondheim. It&#8217;s more Woody Allen than Ingmar Bergman, more Joyce Carol Oates than James Joyce, more Jeff Koons than Duchamp, more Arcade Fire than the Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>It does not expand the borders of art or wreck the tyranny of the possible or enlarge our hungry little minds.<\/p>\n<p>It is art of the day to inform the conversation of the day by the people of the day who need to be reassured that their taste is a little more elevated than that of the woman on the subway reading Nora Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>For want of a better label, here&#8217;s a suggested honorific for this kind of art:<\/p>\n<p>Urban Intellectual Fodder. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2010\/09\/are-our-writers-as-lousy-as-our-bankers.html\">Read the whole thing . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Our Writers As Lousy As Our Bankers? by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash There is a certain kind of art made here in America for a lofty but banal purpose: to enliven the contemporary educated mind. You know: the mind of you and me, dear 3QD reader &#8212; the NPR listener, the New Yorker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[183,163,257,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-4271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acolytes-in-media","7":"tag-culture-2","8":"tag-media","9":"tag-pop-culture","10":"tag-pundits","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}