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Monday 15 August 2016

Theodore Adorno

wrote:
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
But both the order and the chaos are false,
and the quip is falsely neat,
and most people
for most of history
and prehistory
have not had enough to eat.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
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The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodor_adorno.html
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodor_adorno.html
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodor_adorno.html

5 comments:

Bearz said...

I suspect Mr Adorno was paraphrasing the quote 'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable' which is still far too pat, but at least it identifies the that there are the disturbed (the chaotic) and the comfortable (the orderly), albeit in all too orderly a way.

Wofl said...

Your quotation is much better. But who wrote it ?

Bearz said...

Mexican poet and short story writer Cesar A. Cruz.

Karl said...

One of the few rants against Saint Adorno I have seen.

http://www.wermodandwermod.com/newsitems/news060820140000.html

Wofl said...

And a vituperative rant it is, indeed. A pity, because a measured critique of Adorno would be worth reading.