In the final explosion of the pitiful whimper, we may be unable to discern where it all originated.
Fire, ice, famine, and plagues are the images that have terrified our uncomprehending, partial vision of existence - a persistent, parallel theme to the "problems of the human heart in conflict with itself" which, as Faulkner wrote, is the traditional, central concern of art.Īmnesis is not an apocalyptic art nonetheless, it is tinged with a major preoccupation of our age: humanity as its own destroyer the apocalypse as the culmination of our thoughtless acts. Bosch and Blake relived its ancient meanings Goya outlined its future guise: an omnipotent, vengeful God becomes a bestial force whose dwelling place is not the heavens but the human heart and mind. THE EXTRA-ARTISTIC DIMENSION OF AMNESIS Part 2 The apocalypse is a theme as old as the first recorded writings of humanity.
The Amnesis Manifesto - The Extra-Artistic Dimension of Amnesis
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