Art is eating itself

Trying to hold onto Year Zero will always be futile, like trying to catch water. If, as Jung believed, art ‘gives shape to the dominant trends of the age’, this is it. We are the epoch of the great destroyers, swinging sledgehammers without regard. It is all around us, in our art, in everything we sweep onto the rubbish heap of our civilization.

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Art is eating itself

In his curious little book about Flying Saucers, Carl Jung took an interesting detour into the psychology of modern art.  His contemporaries, he said, had ‘taken as their subject the disintegration of forms’. Their pictures, ‘abstractly detached...