QOTD

[randy_byers]

'"Real" can't be the point. We already have real.'

-- Christopher Sorrentino, interviewed by Glenn Kenny: Christopher Sorrentino on "Death Wish," the so-called "New York film," received critical wisdom, and a little more...

Or maybe I should have gone with this:

'If we were to catalog the social responsibility of all existing works of art solely on the basis of the community standards existing at the time of their creation, Deep Throat would end up being a more socially responsible work than Jude the Obscure.'

Comments

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

"Oxymoron" was probably the wrong word, but I do think there's an interesting tension between the words in the phrase "illusion of reality," as you have pointed out, and obviously there's a long philosophical debate on the nature and goal of artistic representation. Christopher Sorrentino's line is a good summation of one angle on the debate.