tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post4450757632318697263..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Reconfiguring Romanticism (47): Victor Hugo & the Poetics of the Ugly & GrotesqueJerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-72917146076146024092011-06-07T00:32:58.878-07:002011-06-07T00:32:58.878-07:00Just like light and darkness exist together, the g...Just like light and darkness exist together, the good and evil forces stay inside human psychology. The dark side is not the one that acts always, but when it unleashes, the thin line between right and wrong diminishes. The concerned person forgets everything, and is completely driven by the wrong pathway. Visit www.rightbooks.in/product_details.asp?pid=9780552165525 to know how it changed the life of Kevin Dodd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-50296176714044974202011-06-06T12:28:51.708-07:002011-06-06T12:28:51.708-07:00sorry to "but in" asIsoInfrequentlyamw...sorry to "but in" asIsoInfrequentlyamwanttodo<br /><br />however<br /><br />y'all just might enjoy the chapter in Soetsu Yanagi's<br /> The Unknown Craftsman<br /><br />- The Beauty of Irregularity<br /><br /><br /><br />here is it s second paragraph which is apropos (if not<br />germain to this discussion:<br /><br /><br /> "Although the contemporary accent is on deformation, expression, in both East and West, was always achieved by departing from regular form. The term "grotesque", which has an important - rather, a solemn - significance in aesthetic history, has unfortunately been misused and debased in modern times. All true art has, somewhere, an element of the grotesque. Thus the principle of irregularity, or departing from fixed form, is not new; it is merely that it has come to be employed consciously ."<br /><br />(then on &into primitive art via Africa, the Americas, & the South Seas as being an "astonishing revelation and had a magnetic effect on artists like Picasso and Matisse."<br /><br />the next chapter?<br /><br /> -The Buddhist Idea of BeautyEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-74274292684757441832011-06-04T20:54:24.964-07:002011-06-04T20:54:24.964-07:00In the heady days of high modernism, the grotesque...In the heady days of high modernism, the grotesques transmitted from Hugo to Baudelaire to Cezanne to Picasso et al had the power to shock. Today, its just another bit of binary code. Why then does this feel like it was writen yesterday, like a ride cymbal flaring a step behind to remind us we're back in the 19th century (as you suggest in your frontispiece)? Perhaps it's because we once again lack a frame of reference for the horror all around us. How can we howl when homeless people are familiar, addicts crawl now out of every family, the Greek Gods are more comfortable as repitilians than immortals? The strange needs to become real again - imagination is too malleable.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com