{"id":1379,"date":"2009-12-14T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/12\/gil_kane_-_whats_new_is_always\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:46:05","slug":"gil_kane_-_whats_new_is_always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/12\/gil_kane_-_whats_new_is_always.html","title":{"rendered":"Gil Kane &#8211; what&#8217;s new is always trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecrater.com\/product.php?pid=238627\">Gil Kane<\/a>, in an essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/?p=1339\">Gary Groth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the commonplace world, all new arts are trash. In Elizabethan times,<br \/>\nit was commonplace to say that Shakespeare&#8217;s theatre was trash. And<br \/>\nthen it was the novel&#8217;s turn: the novel, they said, was trash. And then<br \/>\nthe film came along. First it was the silent film, and the commonplace<br \/>\nwas that it was trash &#8212; until the sound film emerged. Then the silent<br \/>\nfilm suddenly became an art, as the theatre and the novel had, and it<br \/>\nwas the sound movie that was trash. Today, all film is becoming art.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s trash today, then? Comics, of course. But now that the newspaper<br \/>\nstrip is ailing, the commonplace is that it <em>may<\/em> be art. Those comic book stories, though, they&#8217;re <em>surely<\/em> trash&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gil Kane, in an essay by Gary Groth: In the commonplace world, all new arts are trash. In Elizabethan times, it was commonplace to say that Shakespeare&#8217;s theatre was trash. And then it was the novel&#8217;s turn: the novel, they said, was trash. And then the film came along. First it was the silent film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}