art is the opposite of death

The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude.

— William Deresiewicz, “The End of Solitude” (via austinkleon)

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  17. mlarson said: Andrew Potter has a great chapter on the shift from romantics to moderns and beyond in The Authenticity Hoax — worth checking out!
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