What Will Be the Great Art?
What will citizens of the 22nd century see as the great art of the 20th? I think it will mostly be movies. Casablanca, Satjit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, Charlie Chaplin’s movies, The Imitation Game, Sophie’s Choice, the “Colors of the Wind”…
A Poetry-Lover’s Guide
Poems expressing love, tenderness, despair, wistfulness, rage… 100 poems by 65 poets, with 60 links to other poetry collections and guides…
Genius Ignored
Artists who were undervalued / unappreciated / ignored / neglected in their own time, their greatness being recognized only by subsequent generations….
Scraps of Faith: 54 Poems
in which Lucius Furius poses as an African Bushman and Nazi General Erwin Rommel; disinters Vietnam draft memories; grapples with life’s meaning ( 1 … , 2 … , 3); celebrates asceticism; remembers brother’s suicide , near-death of son; talks to former loves; summarizes the millennium; confesses love for wife ; considers Adam and Eve.
Links To Other Valuable Art
Links to other valuable writings, musical pieces/performances, and movies.
See / Hear Them…
The original Humanists (Giotto, Petrarch, Erasmus) turned away from 13th-century religious abstraction to celebrate the beauty and power of human beings and nature. Artists of coming centuries will, in a similar fashion, turn away from the impotent, Scientific abstractions of the 20th century, returning to an art which expresses genuine feeling and is grounded in genuine culture.
*** This was written before I had heard Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna” (1998). That’s an exception:Lauridsen Wikipedia article .