The Book by Alan W. Watts

Author:Alan W. Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80787-8
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

1“Until the middle of the 17th century Chinese and European scientific theories were about on a par, and only thereafter did European thought begin to move ahead so rapidly. But though it marched under the banner of Cartesian-Newtonian mechanicism, that viewpoint could not permanently suffice for the needs of science—the time came when it was imperative to look upon physics as the study of the smaller organisms, and biology as the study of the larger organisms. When the time came, Europe (or rather, by then, the world) was able to draw up a mode of thinking very old, very wise, and not characteristically European at all.” Needham, Science and Civilisation in China. Cambridge University Press, 1956. Vol. II, p. 303.

2This is not to be taken as a rejection of “modern art” in general, but only of that rather dominant aspect of it which claims that the artist should represent his time. And since this is the time of junkyards, billboards, and expensive slums, many artists—otherwise bereft of talent—make a name for themselves by the “tasteful” framing or pedestaling of objets trouvés from the city dump.

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