We read one book, but in different ways.
I tried to draw your attention to
total Neumann's position on the new art, the spirit of his articles.
If you pull up statements from the general context, it will vremyaubiystvennaya and senseless war quotations.
The collapse of the old cultural canon is not considered by the author as a phenomenon that should mourn. This is a natural consequence of global change in the world. Appointment of creative art direction - to destroy the familiar canon, with his "beautiful".
I will cite a few passages, as this MB interesting for all participants of the forum,
and in strict accordance with the meaning of texts Neumann .
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"The great art of this kind almost always contains the tragedy. Compensation of the cultural canon means opposition to him, that is, opposition to the consciousness and values of the era. A creative artist whose mission is to compensate for the cultural canon, and consciousness is usually isolated individual, a hero, who must destroy the old order to allow the sun to climb new.
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Behest of the time works in the artist, even if he does not want this or that dictates not feel, or do not understand its true value. In this sense it is similar to a seer, a prophet, a mystic. And just when it does not reflect the existing canon, but radically transforms it, his work rises to the sacral level, because it directly reflects the truth and the supernatural. "
For implementation of "prophetic" mission is never guaranteed nor candy of life, nor peace of mind. You talk about self-improvement? Self-Help for the prophet - are all steps to ensure that the crowd be trampled or crucified overseers "canon".
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there is still the art of the day before yesterday. But this pseudo-fake innocence, which is trying to cover the long-life light faded stars, is no less concern than the art that belongs to our time ".
The one piece of text that you bring about the artists who have broken with the old canon - that the "frustration and stress, in which they work, contrasted sharply with the calm of artists past and feel native traditions," has no meaning at Neumann's condemnation of this situation and the call to return to calm and grace of harmony. All just the opposite - he sympathizes with the true Creator, who is our age doomed to bear the cross in the throes of disharmony. Because without these desperate efforts could not be given a new form of chaos. What it will be - we do not know.
One thing is certain - it will not be found any "method of the ostrich - by immersing their heads in the sand (self-imposed isolation from the spirit of the time) to" obtain information from the higher planes, nor the method of embalming the mummies of the old canon.
Admix theosophic terms (thought forms, astral ...) in the language of psychoanalysis - that's quite lightly.