{"id":60293,"date":"2024-04-20T14:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=60293"},"modified":"2024-04-21T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T18:52:21","slug":"influenced-by-the-limitations-of-a-lifeboat-in-a-tidal-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/04\/influenced-by-the-limitations-of-a-lifeboat-in-a-tidal-wave.html","title":{"rendered":"Influenced by Limitations of a Lifeboat in a Tidal Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u200bBefore I needed to earn a living from writing I was a member of the avant-garde, fervent and full of high opinion. The other day while cleaning up old files, I came across a typescript copy of “Synchronic Non-Causative Agent,” an unpublished paper of mine written more than half a century ago (and sent to Richard Kostelanetz<\/a>, probably for his 1973 anthology Breakthrough Fictioneers<\/a><\/em>). Reading it over gave me the bright idea of posting it here. Despite its age, it still seems relevant albeit a piece of juvenilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The artist in America is influenced by the limitations of a lifeboat in a tidal wave. \u2026 If the avant-garde is anything, it consists of international pockets of resistance against conforming tides. They gravitate to places where others have distinguished themselves by honest methods of liberation. Not to heaven.”<\/em> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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