tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post2300087449558113062..comments2024-03-16T16:12:13.296+00:00Comments on some LANDSCAPES: KoyaanisqatsiPliniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06529481330530614513noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19151341.post-78482440935437954322014-01-18T10:38:59.380+00:002014-01-18T10:38:59.380+00:00It's odd, and perhaps a side-effect of ageing,...It's odd, and perhaps a side-effect of ageing, that the "experimental" work I saw and heard in the 70s, of which this is an example (but I also think of Greenaway, "Powers of Ten", Herzog & Co., early David Lynch, the gallery work of Richard Long and Hamish Fulton) still feels "adventurous and contemporary" forty years on, despite the way it set up so many cliches.<br /><br />It's also odd how few, if any, of these people got very far beyond their early work. In some ways, avant garde culture seems to have been stopped in its tracks by whatever it was that happened in the 1980s/90s... (State funding? End of unemployment benefits?)<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.com