Modern literature - via Revolution!
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Lao Tzu
Tom Fallon
Did you think the literary revolution began
with the American Beats?
Modern literature has its roots in Greek thought translated during the Renaissance, which was followed by the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Human ideas about the world began to slowly change.
Evolution of human thought and daily living gained steam during the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries with the industrial revolution, new inventions and radical new theories and ideas of scientists and philosophers.
During the 17th and 18th Centuries, and in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, visual artists invented revolutionary new art forms to express the new human ideas that were evolving in the new, the modern, world.
Writers also changed during the 17th and 18th Centuries, turning away from poetry and traditional verse forms in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, inventing new and freer literary forms that would create modern literature.
And the revolution continues in the 21st Century as literature and the other fine arts continue to change with the evolution of human thinking.
So it is we have modern literature…
Modern literature has its roots in Greek thought translated during the Renaissance, which was followed by the Enlightenment and French Revolution. Human ideas about the world began to slowly change.
Evolution of human thought and daily living gained steam during the 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries with the industrial revolution, new inventions and radical new theories and ideas of scientists and philosophers.
During the 17th and 18th Centuries, and in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, visual artists invented revolutionary new art forms to express the new human ideas that were evolving in the new, the modern, world.
Writers also changed during the 17th and 18th Centuries, turning away from poetry and traditional verse forms in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, inventing new and freer literary forms that would create modern literature.
And the revolution continues in the 21st Century as literature and the other fine arts continue to change with the evolution of human thinking.
So it is we have modern literature…
And...
Walt Whitman -
Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge
of the world.
Claude Debussy - I am
increasingly convinced that music is not, in
essence, a thing which can be cast into a
traditional and fixed form.
Victor Cousins - L'art pour l'art.
Victor Cousins - L'art pour l'art.
Hans
Jean Arp - I wanted to find
another order, another value for man in
nature. I wanted to create new
appearances, to extract new forms from
man.
Wassily Kandinsky - There is no must in art because art is free.
Paul Klee - Those artists who penetrate to
the region of that secret place where primeval
power nurtures all evolution. Where the
power-house of all time and space -
call it brain or heart of creation - activates
every function; who is the artist who would not
dwell
there?
Ezra Pound - Make it new.
Ezra Pound - Make it new.
William
Carlos Williams - All the ways
and means we have of writing just go to prove
that no one has yet discovered any one
best way. Every creative writer will
experiment, try out new techniques.
Marianne Moore - I disliked the term “poetry” for any but Chaucer’s or Shakespeare’s or Dante’s. I do not now feel quite my original hostility to the word, since it is a convenient almost unavoidable term for the thing (although hardly for me - my observations, experiments in rhythm, or exercises in composition). What I write, as I said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.
John Cage - If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
Marianne Moore - I disliked the term “poetry” for any but Chaucer’s or Shakespeare’s or Dante’s. I do not now feel quite my original hostility to the word, since it is a convenient almost unavoidable term for the thing (although hardly for me - my observations, experiments in rhythm, or exercises in composition). What I write, as I said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.
John Cage - If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
Richard Kostelanetz - Perhaps most accurate term for my imaginative endeavors would be 'Language Art.'
Tom Fallon - We human beings embracing life's creative force, investigating, experimenting, inventing, creating a multiplicity of literary forms as natural as the multiplicity of created life forms.
Matthew Zapruder - John Ashbery is one of the most lauded poets yet his work defies traditional expectations for what poems should do. At times likened to montage, at others to abstraction in painting, his poems take many different forms but could be said to be more like assemblages of language…
Change...
with poetry, verse, prose poetry, free verse, anti-poetry, experimental verse or poetry, concrete art or poetry, language art or poetry, text sound art, conceptual art, text art, collage, word work, word art, word creation, charteng, intermedia & so on....as the past dies today with the future...
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.Fallon