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How times change, classic modernism, was deemed by the gilded society as scandalous and offensive to a middle class public, it was ugly, dissonant, sexually shocking and subversive
Yet for these former subversive styles, such as Abstract expressionism, the great modernist poetry of Pound, Eliot or Wallace Stevens, the international styles of Le Courbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, the music of Stravinsky, Joyce, Proust and Mann felt to be scandalous or shocking by recent generations, are for the generation who arrive at the gates of the 60s, felt to be the establishment and the enemy.
For such greats are dead, stifling, canonical, they are the reified monuments one has to destroy, to breathe, to do anything new.
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