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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0282 A Necessary Art</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's art history, and there's the history of art.<br>Art history, you can learn anywhere these days; <br>the history of art's some other, thrilling thing, a life-blood<br>pumping its heart intensely as if it were a matter<br>which it is of course, of life and death..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and who will tell you, except those who lived it through, <br>who will tell you - except perhaps old men; <br>while the students yawn, stop taking notes, <br>and wonder if the chick back there<br>is up for it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who will tell you that the truth is savage, <br>and the world hard earned, <br>and art, painting, poetry, <br>a matter of life and death? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who will tell you, for instance, how after 1945, <br>when war ended, and 'peace' <br>was the threat of nuclear annihilation, <br>the great French artists, who had made<br>their various accommodations with the occupying power<br>brought out near ten years' work the world had never seen? <br>As if archaeologists, searching for the past, <br>had found instead, the future? <br>Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Braque - you know the names...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and how Picasso, who never allowed any other artist<br>to see him at his work, opened his Paris studio<br>to hordes of American servicemen? Interviewed<br>in the great French magazine, Cahiers d'Art, in I think<br>the late 1940s, he said his art was<br>'une somme des destructions' - a sum of destructions; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and Wallace Stevens, in a lecture at the Met, in 1951, <br>remembered the phrase, made it his text, and<br>told the post-war world that painting, as with poetry, <br>was man's great chance to seek his self - for each of us<br>to find out who we really are - in ways, we listening<br>were to assume, which might not always be heard in churches<br>or from philosophers' petty squabblings.. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">now today, this may seem a truism put out by slick PR<br>from auction houses; who can tell you<br>what it was like to hear that said? <br>and by so great a poet man? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's art history, and the history of art.<br>Who will tell you that the truth is savage<br>and the world hard earned, <br>and art, painting, poetry, <br>a matter of life and death?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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Art history, you can learn anywhere these days; 
the history of art's some other, thrilling thing, a life-blood
pumping its heart intensely as if it were a matter
which it is of course, of life ..."></div>
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