{"id":158,"date":"2005-05-04T14:09:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T21:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2005-05-17T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T03:48:12","slug":"apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/apology\/","title":{"rendered":"apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I owe surrealism an apology for the lame critique in yesterday&#8217;s post &#8230; this post is an attempt at reparations &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Gioia&#8217;s essay on Tate and &#8220;American Surrealism&#8221; ignores the political component of surrealism. Surrealism was\/is anti-capitalist, anti-clerical, sexually open, and politically radical. How we forget that when we say a scene was oh &#8211; gee &#8211; so <i>surreal<\/i> or equate surrealism with dream logic and free association. No teeth there! <\/p>\n<p>From this point of view, animated cartoons did not participate in the tradition of surrealism. Gioia&#8217;s essay is not very insightful on this point. <\/p>\n<p>Dana Gioia is Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, I knew that. <\/p>\n<p>And &#8211;  other thoughts &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what about &#8220;private&#8221; versus &#8220;public&#8221; subtext?<\/li>\n<li>who&#8217;s to say what is deeply communicative and what is not? <\/li>\n<li>what is communicated when the poet is non-communicative?<\/li>\n<li>why is the private kept private?  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Power &#8211; communication &#8211; canon &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>I am intrigued by private symbolism, private allusions, private resonance. I don&#8217;t like the paragraphs of Gioia&#8217;s essay where he dismisses Tate so quickly for lack of subliminal communication. It&#8217;s politically irresponsible, as is his discussion of surrealism. <\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like I owe surrealism an apology for the lame critique in yesterday&#8217;s post &#8230; this post is an attempt at reparations &#8230; Gioia&#8217;s essay on Tate and &#8220;American Surrealism&#8221; ignores the political&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}