civilized ku # 3005 / diptych # 183 ~ same as it ever was

window / 20 Main ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
No. 4 / rusting hulk ~ near Keeseville, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

Recently, while reading a person-not-a-dective-but-functioning-as-one novel which was written / published in 1964, I came across this early anti-acamdeic lunatic fringe commentary encountered by the book's protagonist as he was killing some time reading an art publication. Hence, Today's Artspeak Gobbledygook ....

The art magazine told me that when abstract expressionism reflected utter disenchantment with the dream it still reverted to rhetorical simplifications even in its impiety, and that it is not a unified stylistic entity because of its advocacy of alien ideas on the basis of a homiletic approach to experience.

The protagonist's reaction / response to the written word was a sarcastic, "Funny I'd never realized that."

Apparently, my distain for the workings of the academic lunatic fringe, Photography Division, is a time-honored tradition reaching much farther back than I realized.