the german expression for contemporary ("zeitgenoessisch" with an Umlaut) is real undiluted 18th century  --  mostly for people but also for poetry etc. (Goethe, Lessing, etc.).  It has a beautiful oldfashioned flair but is still going strong (which means that it is very useful and
cannot be replaced easily).

When is/was "today"?.

Christof Wolters


T W Moran schrieb:

>  Good Morning,
>         I'm probably going to get flamed good for this but you've stepped on a
> pet peeve.
>         Modern and contemporary were not classifications until we had to many
> Ph.D.s' with the need to have something to say.
>         Artists have always copied what went before them or went off in some
> new direction. When that new direction worked it survived and we had a
> new modern development.
>         We do not find commentary breaking down segments of the past by name,
> save for the past and the present until our own times.
>         I understand academia's need to validate it's self, and the current
> desire to pigeon hole knowledge.
>         The effect of this pigeon holing is to put walls between people. In
> that it becomes impolite to cross into someone else's aria of expertise,
> with out the proper papers upon the wall.
>         It is often taken by those with papers that those who are with out
> papers can not have any understanding of the subject.
>         This is not to say that we have not reached a point in history where
> giving eras of development or predominate style some title, e.g. Art
> nouveau, is not useful. But any such effort should be a help not a
> hindrance.
>         For after all, is not all this effort for the enlighting of every one?
>         I will go and hide in my bomb shelter now.
>                         Sincerely yours
>                                 Tw
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