Thomas Stern Eliot, 1934. Wikipedia.org
In the essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” T.S. Eliot
writes:
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his
appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value
him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a
principle of aesthetic, 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; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing
order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each
work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the
new.”
Quote from The Contextual Mean. By Jim Bassett
Virginia Tech University
Myriam, en términos de onda, toda obra es una ecografía.
ReplyDeleteLa voz es sólo el eco de muchas voces. En cuanto más voces asimiles y admires más intenso es el eco.
Abrazos longitudinales.
Gracias Sergio, hermoso comentario. Quién habrá sido el primer artista de cada tema?? Un abrazo,
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