Return to Philosophy by Joad C. E. M.;

Author:Joad, C. E. M.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Muriwai Books
Published: 2019-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

The Cult of the Primitive. In contemporary literature this attack upon the reason takes two rather different forms. At Huxley’s intellectual anti-rationalism we have already glanced. There remains the romantic anti-rationalism of Lawrence.

One of the outstanding developments of the post-war years has been a revolt against sophistication and a romantic cult of the primitive. The post-war repudiation of the traditional disciplines in conduct has been accompanied by a repudiation of traditional disciplines in art. Negroes and jazz the emanation of negroes; the jungle and the Ju-Ju and Epstein’s statues, the emanation of the jungle and the Ju-Ju; the music of Stravinsky and the pictures of the Surréalistes are acclaimed just because they are not in the classical tradition, because they do not embody the traditional ӕsthetic virtues, the virtues of clarity and poise and studied beauty of form. M. Breton writing in The Quarter, an American review which has devoted a whole number to the exposition of Surrealism, expresses his belief ‘in the higher reality of certain forms of association hitherto neglected, in the omnipotence of dreaming, in the unbiased play of thought’. To this unexplored territory he welcomes artists and creative writers, suggesting that it is the matrix of all true art. ‘Artists and creative writers’ are not slow to accept the invitation. Nerval gives us poems whose exploration of the vague territories of the subliminal issues via a fabric of unconscious association in phrases and rhythms that derive their meaning, if any, from the forgotten past, and apparently make their appearance on the poet’s writing paper as unaccountably as spirit messages, which, indeed, they often resemble, while Salvador Dali offers us pictures in which, against a predominating background of grand pianos, the skulls of animals, entrails, fœtuses and alarmingly distorted human beings jostle one another in their efforts to portray the enigmatic pulsings of the subliminal self.

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