tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post7809417759832998622..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: ModernityJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-23021548829690583792011-04-06T10:09:19.891-05:002011-04-06T10:09:19.891-05:00Right, but I still do like those little anachronis...Right, but I still do like those little anachronistic frissons when something momentarily seems out of place in the temporal continuum.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-52524402819745827162011-04-05T23:32:31.740-05:002011-04-05T23:32:31.740-05:00Yes -- I'm more or less in your situation as a...Yes -- I'm more or less in your situation as a consumer of art, but I've long seen that to use "modern" as a term of praise in receiving older art is irrelevant, really expressing a kind of helplessness. I remember a friend commenting after hearing a Beethoven quartet how modern it was. On the contrary, I wanted to exclaim, isn't it in every bar clearly a work of its time? Would we literally mistake the Grosse Fuge for a work of even 25 years later? Those works do have many striking qualities, so let's talk about those -- "modern" is in this sense a mere stab in the dark.Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.com