Avant-Garde Vigor

                                                 
                                                     
(or whatever one construes to be the leading edge     
of aesthetic thinking at a given time) tends to   
dilute over time, and so must/ be refreshed if the
art it addresses is to remain vital mainly because   
there always is a general culture ready to put any
new thinking to its own uses and into its favorite
boxes, and no one has yet (or is ever likely to)  
construct an aesthetic some general culture cannot
absorb.                                           
                                                      
Nonetheless, valuable insights are not lacking.    
In issue 8 of Action Yes is an article by Robert
Archambeau about Per Bäckström's analyis of the
central movements since the Nineteenth Century    
with a nod to Renato Poggioli and with further  
insights of his own.  At the core of this article
is the acceptance of linguistic entropy.         
                                        
                                        
                                             
                                              
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