Episode 36: Paintings and Novels are Quintessentially Antithetical

05/05/2018 11 min Episodio 36
Episode 36: Paintings and Novels are Quintessentially Antithetical

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Paintings and novels, far from being hidebound, as is often squawked, are quintessentially antithetical: excellent disciplines for new metaphoric thought. They are ideally adversarial. They incorporate, use and criticize. They have achieved a condition of being perpetually "genres undermined." They have been in a permanent state of crisis for a minimum of several hundred years. What more could one ask for as a difficult, challenging and rewarding fray?