“The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that while the art world has effectively freed itself from the tyranny of artistic tradition and its historic patronage system, it has ended up inhabiting an autonomous but perceived irrelevance.” WorldArtCultureBeliefChristianityCreativityVirtueEffectsTheoryTraditionTyrannyArtisticHistoricArt WorldAvant GardeAutonomousCumulativePatronageIrrelevance Author:John Walford
“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.” ArtistBeliefBeautyModernMetaphorBelief SystemsModern ArtDubiousPostmodern Author:John Walford