What a treat: another conversation with my good friend Dave Martel, the man behind the Bizarchives. We talk pulp fiction, art and a whole lot more. I think you’ll enjoy listening to this episode as much as I recorded it Dave and I will definitely reconvene to talk about heavy metal…
Your guest addressed an important truth: any art whose primary purpose is to espouse a political view or ideology, right or left, is trash, plain and simple. Art, to be art, must above all, entertain and, hopefully, elevate the spirit, intellect, or emotion of the reader, viewer, or listener. If the art succeeds in that, whatever politics the artist has will flow organically into the creation.
And therein lies the rub, for me at least. I've found such a small proportion of the fiction, poetry, music, painting, etc. I've personally encountered, that's been created during my lifetime, that's even been able to hold my attention or interest (not taking into consideration the political content). I wholly agree with your guest that a critical measure of the state of a civilization is the state of the art it produces. So here's a question: is it just a circumstance of my own dispositional attitude, that I actively dislike most all contemporary art, or is our civilization actually in something of a bad way?
Dave Martel = Tony Soprano - Prozac + Giovanni Gentile + Cincinnatus + Heidegger + Count Trocero
Dave Dave plz read my series on Dio...Dave!
Your guest addressed an important truth: any art whose primary purpose is to espouse a political view or ideology, right or left, is trash, plain and simple. Art, to be art, must above all, entertain and, hopefully, elevate the spirit, intellect, or emotion of the reader, viewer, or listener. If the art succeeds in that, whatever politics the artist has will flow organically into the creation.
And therein lies the rub, for me at least. I've found such a small proportion of the fiction, poetry, music, painting, etc. I've personally encountered, that's been created during my lifetime, that's even been able to hold my attention or interest (not taking into consideration the political content). I wholly agree with your guest that a critical measure of the state of a civilization is the state of the art it produces. So here's a question: is it just a circumstance of my own dispositional attitude, that I actively dislike most all contemporary art, or is our civilization actually in something of a bad way?
I think we're in a very bad way indeed. We're starved of real art.
I like pulp fiction many ideas comes from there