Saved from Drowning in the Sea of Postmodernism ; in an Age When Anything Can Be Called Art, It Is Refreshing to Find Three Artists Revelling in Traditional Values of Landscape, Portrait and Still Life, of Drawing, Painting and Observation

Sewell, Brian, The Evening Standard (London, England)

I AM occasionally tempted to adopt the Victorian writer's direct form of address, "Dear Reader", used when he wished to make a particular point or steer the bewildered through a paradox, and today I shall succumb.

Dear Reader, do not, I beg you, turn to another page because I employ the term Post-Modern. You have, no doubt, closed your minds to Post-Modernism and all its tiresome conflicts and confusions, and I, long since utterly perplexed, have damned it as a slippery pinhead on which foolish angels dance. I write of it now only because, in responding to a letter from a student bitterly complaining that his teachers have failed to recognise "the absurdity of …

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Publication information: Article title: Saved from Drowning in the Sea of Postmodernism ; in an Age When Anything Can Be Called Art, It Is Refreshing to Find Three Artists Revelling in Traditional Values of Landscape, Portrait and Still Life, of Drawing, Painting and Observation. Contributors: Sewell, Brian - Author. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: February 3, 2006. Page number: 34. © Not available. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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