Hey, I've managed to stay connected long enough to read a few blogs and maybe get this post off. Michael at 2Blowhards uses the Renaissance Dutch painter, engraver, and businessman Goltzius to blog about how silly the notion of the solitary artist really is:
The last thing a Renaissance artist was doing was making it all up. (Coming up with it all is probably the last thing anyone wanted or expected an artist to do.) Instead, artists did what most artists through most of history and in most cultures have done, which is to accept what the culture had generated and was passing along, to master it to the best of their abilities, to add their own two cents to the mixture, and to then pass it along too.
Some of the comments mention poetry as NOT an exception to this. Blogging, it seems to me, provides perhaps the first opportunity for provincial rubes like me to participate in the conversations that have always enlivened and nourished literary life in the cities.
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