“ what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. ”
T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (1920). copy citation
| Author | T. S. Eliot |
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| Source | The Sacred Wood |
| Topic | art work |
| Date | 1920 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sacred_Wood/Tradition_and_the_Individ... |
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“you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism. The necessity that he shall conform, that he shall cohere, is not one-sided; what happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them. The existing order is complete before the new work arrives;”
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