{"id":31315,"date":"2012-11-11T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/seriousness-for-the-sake-of-seriousness.html"},"modified":"2012-11-11T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T16:50:49","slug":"seriousness-for-the-sake-of-seriousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/11\/seriousness-for-the-sake-of-seriousness.html","title":{"rendered":"Seriousness for the Sake of Seriousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

MGM has (or had — do they exist any more?) \u00a0as its motto, Ars gratia artis<\/i> … "Art for the sake of art." \u00a0Which is very, if you will, artsy — we're not in it for the money, for the press, for the ratings, for the entertainment … we're in it for the art<\/b>, dammit!<\/i><\/p>\n

Of course, it's a lie — they are (were?) in it fort he money, the press, the ratings, the (if it contributes to the above) entertainment. \u00a0That's why their big documentary was called "That's Entertainment!" not "That's Art!"<\/p>\n

If there is a problem with art in this era — literature included — it is that it's so damned seriously artful<\/i> and artsy<\/i> and artistic<\/i>. \u00a0It's about being serious, and serious about it, and taking seriousness seriously. And the academic culture around art (including, especially, literature) is all about that seriousness. If it's not serious, then it's not worth it. \u00a0It might be, perhaps, commercial. \u00a0Though, of course, it's best if the really serious stuff is the stuff that gets commericial support and wouldn't your corporation like to sponsor our exhibit of "Dadism and the Kafkaesque Threat in Modern Post-Modern Feminist Novel" Glutin-Free Sculptures?<\/i><\/p>\n

De puts it in even more understandable terms. \u00a0Seriousness is not all. It's not even most.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fantastic break-down of serious writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYesterday I held a cooking party. (I\u2019ll get the final recipes up soon, I promise.) People came over, drank, cooked, ate, talked, had fun. Every one of these I do, they get better. More fun. It takes a lot of work, a lot of hidden prep to make these things go off. An understanding of when to boss people around, and when to let fortunate accidents happen. When to sit down and do nothing, even. To whirl with the whirlwind, to find the stillness at t…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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MGM has (or had — do they exist any more?) \u00a0as its motto, Ars gratia artis … "Art for the sake of art." \u00a0Which is very, if you will, artsy — we're not in it for the money, for the press, for the ratings, for the entertainment … we're in it for the art, dammit! … Continue reading “Seriousness for the Sake of Seriousness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/08\/on-the-marvel-method-for-super-hero-movies.html","url_meta":{"origin":31315,"position":0},"title":"On the "Marvel Method" for Super-Hero Movies","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-May-16 6:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I started writing about this in a comment in another thread, and decided to expand it here. 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