{"id":1085,"date":"2009-09-21T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/ken-burns-vs-his-critics.html"},"modified":"2009-09-21T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:03:00","slug":"ken-burns-vs-his-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/ken-burns-vs-his-critics.html","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burns vs. His Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SrfDqc7PszI\/AAAAAAAAAZQ\/Jto4ib0DyUU\/s1600-h\/Kenburns.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SrfDqc7PszI\/AAAAAAAAAZQ\/Jto4ib0DyUU\/s320\/Kenburns.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SrfDpiqyK4I\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/OXDzxqMrLnE\/s1600-h\/arrowhead.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SrfDpiqyK4I\/AAAAAAAAAZI\/OXDzxqMrLnE\/s320\/arrowhead.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>AS a former (and very minor) member of the nation&#8217;s conspiracy of jazz critics, i remember quite well the vitriol hurled at ken burns for his &#8220;Jazz&#8221; documentary. the UK&#8217;s guardian, for instance, called the series, for its treating jazz like an art form that died with ellington, &#8220;a jam session in a mausoleum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>in some cases the charges were fair, in other cases not.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>in any case it struck me that burns was experiencing a critical backlash, an exhaustion of the good will that had built up with &#8220;the civil war&#8221; in the early &#8217;90s. compared to hipper\/angrier figures like errol morris and michael moore, the earnest burns was deemed as cool as his famous bowl haircut. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-ca-burns-backlash20-2009sep20,0,972796,full.story\">HERE<\/a> is my piece on what may greet his new &#8220;the national parks: america&#8217;s best idea.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i met burns not long ago to discuss his new project, his early work, and his critical reception. i like him a lot, a very intense guy who&#8217;s willing to get swept away in a story, its characters and conflicts. anyone who helps bring more attention to john muir cant be all bad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS a former (and very minor) member of the nation&#8217;s conspiracy of jazz critics, i remember quite well the vitriol hurled at ken burns for his &#8220;Jazz&#8221; documentary. the UK&#8217;s guardian, for instance, called the series, for its treating jazz like an art form that died with ellington, &#8220;a jam session in a mausoleum.&#8221; in [&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":[79,108,42,467,466,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-critics","7":"category-documentary","8":"category-jazz","9":"category-ken-burns","10":"category-national-parks","11":"category-television","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}