{Succession of Media in Artistic Movements [continued (5)]}[23rd September 1990]

[Redbook7:325][19900923:1945l]{Succession of Media in Artistic Movements [continued (5)]}[23rd September 1990]

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I can’t make a lot of theoretical sense of what so far – admittedly on only two examples – seems a reasonably strong pattern.*

I suppose the progression Visual art – Literature – Music represents an essentially outer-circle [sic] rotation.

Certainly, although the cumulative effect of the whole European cultural explosion of the last 500 years continues, and looks set to continue continuing,** each of the movements indicated here* for classicism within a particular mode*** lasted only within a century,**** or at most two: the contrast again# is of the i[nner] c[ircle] rotation evident in the 2048[-year] cycle, but not (or at least not anything like so clearly) in the 512-year cycle, which is the level at which specific expressions are found.

*[See last 4 previous entries, [Redbook7:323-326][19900923:1945h]{Succession of Media in Artistic Movements}[23rd September 1990]ff]

**(sic)

***[ie presumably of art, eg visual art, literature, music]

****Fin[-]de[-]siecle-ism, dear me!

[cf [[Redbook7:312-314][19900921:1435]{Fin de Siècle}[21st September 1990]]]

#[See, presumably, last previous entry]

#*For example, in local terms, the current 512 7^th 1/8th, 1920-1984, could hardly be described as a period of political or cultural inward action and harmony m~-s~ by comparison with the rest of the cycle; on the other hand, a longer view of the 2048-year last quarter so far, ie 1536 to date, shows political revolution (and even signs of ‘simplification’ – 1792ff?) but also in cultural terms, by comparison with 0-1536ce, signs of inward action and cultural harmony. This is obviously highly subjective: what is cultural harmony? I can’t define it, but I think I know it when I see it.

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