Contingentcy of Art-

The expose of sensibility

What was glimpsed on the 21St?

 CONFRONTATION

"The mass movements,upheavals,and
wars which are a by -product of change
indicate that the process involes the
deeper layers of man's soul.After all,
change such as the world has seen
during the last hundrad years is
something wholly unprecedented
in human experience.
"It would be legitimate,therefore,to
assume that there is in man's nature a
built-in resistance to change.We are
not only afraid of the new,but
convinced that we cannot really change,
that we can adapt ourselves to the new
only by getting out of our skin and
assuming a new identity ,In other words,
drastic change generates a need for a
new birth and a new identity.And it
perhaps depends on the way this need is
satisfied whether the process of change
runs smoothly or is attened with
convulsions and explosions."

ERIC HOFFER