Why?
Many of the great things made today are created by huge production teams, agencies etc less heroically isolated men. The idea of the avant garde artist ‘where are the avant garde people?’ is what’s mourned in ‘resistance is futile’ thread and ‘where is the avant garde’ because we’ve grown up worshipping that heroic innovation, fantasised about realising it ourselves. That’s your realI'd expect the most artistically creative people not to be working for Facebook but possibly writing or directing films/TV shows/video games. And that shapes what they can produce, because none of those mediums resemble books except for at the more superficial levels.
much more important than science which is fake anyway
We did.
Where's it pushed us forward to? Another dead end?
Many of the great things made today are created by huge production teams, agencies etc less heroically isolated men. The idea of the avant garde artist ‘where are the avant garde people?’ is what’s mourned in ‘resistance is futile’ thread and ‘where is the avant garde’ because we’ve grown up worshipping that heroic innovation, fantasised about realising it ourselves. That’s your real
Question: where are my heroes?
The modernist novelist or surrealist painter ideal is bound up in risk, daring, sacrifice, throwing shocking or strange and idiosyncratic stuff to a baffled audience after incubating it for years. Because that was the required approach to be top dog. today these people might be seduced by money making opportunities along the way, or the specialised skills of others who help realise their vision, or would see the value in the insight of a savvy audience and adapt to it, data, focus groups, iteration.
Because art is as important as science in terms of pushing us forward, in terms of evolution.
I should have said "We do", but I asked the question in past tense so answered it in kind.
doesn't feel emotionally true to me.