Poets in the Garden
The fanatic defenders of the absolute value of aesthetic isolation are most disposed to accuse contemporary society of failing in its alleged duty of giving practical aid and moral support to the aesthetic activities of "exception." Forgetting that these activities are often characterized by their social inertia, they seem not to realize that society can respond to inertia only by an analogous inaction. But what is important to repeat is that avant-garde art is wrong in blaming its isolation on the single type of society in which that isolation has become necessary and possible. Indifference is the natural product of tolerance; in any case, hot-house flowers cannot complain that they are not treated like flowers of the field.
— Renato Poggioli, The Theory of the Avant-Garde (1968)
— Renato Poggioli, The Theory of the Avant-Garde (1968)
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