I'd love to pick up a book that deals with this issue: why and when painters - and more generally artists - have come to adopt this anti-technological outlook.
Was it a fear that the pervasiveness of technology would make their craft(s) obsolete?
This sort of thinking is rife even within artistic circles.
Artists whose medium is photography are like the ugly lepers of the visual art world.
I find this anti-technological bent in modern Western cultural life particularly unsettling.
Don't take what I'm saying to an extreme; I have nothing against consumable art in its many forms.
However I think the cultural life of cities in the West - in its various forms (art, theatre, cinema, classical music, architecture) are ruled by cohorts who wholly constitute the anti-technological fringe.
They live for abstraction and something about that makes them virulently anti-technological.
Suggest a book or essay that addresses this issue in great depth.
Was it a fear that the pervasiveness of technology would make their craft(s) obsolete?
This sort of thinking is rife even within artistic circles.
Artists whose medium is photography are like the ugly lepers of the visual art world.
I find this anti-technological bent in modern Western cultural life particularly unsettling.
Don't take what I'm saying to an extreme; I have nothing against consumable art in its many forms.
However I think the cultural life of cities in the West - in its various forms (art, theatre, cinema, classical music, architecture) are ruled by cohorts who wholly constitute the anti-technological fringe.
They live for abstraction and something about that makes them virulently anti-technological.
Suggest a book or essay that addresses this issue in great depth.