conformity and artistic novelty
- Most people go through their lives in a sort of coarse comfort, like petted animals, without ever realising that they are probably thinking other people’s thoughts, living by other people’s standards, wearing practically what one may call other people’s second-hand clothes, and never being themselves for a single moment
- The arts that have escaped best are the arts in which the public take no interest. poetry for instance — the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.
- The public are all morbid, because the public can never find expression for anything. The artist is never morbid. He expresses everything. He stands outside his subject, and through its medium produces incomparable and artistic effects.
- public beauty and novelty
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unformed adult zelig
The hero of Woody Allen's mockumentary film, Zelig (1983), is an unformed adult who has no sense of himself. He borrows other people's identity, thinking he can be anybody. Actually, he is without a body.
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picaresque mode parody of the individuation
the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the
The hero of Woody Allen's mockumentary film, Zelig (1983), is an unformed adult who has no sense of himself. He borrows other people's identity, thinking he can be anybody. Actually, he is without a body.
the realm of picaresque reflection, of seeing through every established stance, yet without moral implication … to the society which to the