{Artistic Cycles (1)}[30th June 1990]

[Redbook7:161][19900630:1400]{Artistic Cycles (1)}[30th June 1990]

19900630.(1400c)

Note: A.S. Byatt ‘After the myth, the real’, reviewing 4 books on Van Gogh, T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement], 19900629-0705, 683ff, particularly discussion of Zola’s novel, ‘La Faute de L’Abbé Mouret’, and its (and Van Gogh’s) living ‘symbolism’ or patterns of Christian death and pagan resurrection. & cf Independent Weekend today,* p27, reported comment of Innu (Canadian native) hunter on their personal reconciliation of Shamanism and Christianity: ‘Christianity is the religion of death; our religion is to do with keeping alive. Everyone dies. Everyone tries to live.’**

The notion that Expressionism,*** flourishing as it did from c1900 to 1935, might represent the 64-year C point at 1920 magnified on the approach to the 2048 a.d.**** C point (but what about 1984?), and thus be the beginning of that map of the artistic C[ircles] A[nalysis] & S[ynthesis] patterns which I have to find before I can continue with the booklet# – increased an excitement generated by Byatt’s article:#*

*(Ind[ependent] [19]900630, 27)

**cf [The Guardian, 19900920 Malcolm Bradbury, ‘The World after the Wake’ (annotated with Circles Analysis & Synthesis 64-year & 512-year cycle degrees)], 313A <901011>

***cf E[nyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 4:635

****And cf: “Within the history of Modernism the notion of a ‘recall to order’ is usually associated with the widespread neo-classical revival in European painting immediately following the First World War.” (T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] 19900622-28, 669, R. Snell, ‘A dialogue with tradition’.)

Now see [[Redbook7:164][19900702:2310]{Artistic Cycles (2)}[2^nd July 1990]] (p164)

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#*[continues in next ts & blog journal entry]

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