One Culture and the New Sensibility
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| "'''One Culture and the New Sensibility'''" is an [[essay]] by [[Susan Sontag]] first published in ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine) |Mademoiselle]]'' in 1965. It was later collected in an expanded version in ''[[Against Interpretation]]'' of 1966. The essay is often referenced for noting that the boundaries between [[low culture]] and [[high culture]] were disappearing. | "'''One Culture and the New Sensibility'''" is an [[essay]] by [[Susan Sontag]] first published in ''[[Mademoiselle (magazine) |Mademoiselle]]'' in 1965. It was later collected in an expanded version in ''[[Against Interpretation]]'' of 1966. The essay is often referenced for noting that the boundaries between [[low culture]] and [[high culture]] were disappearing. | ||
| - | + | In his takedown of Sontag (included in [[The Dustbin of History]]), [[Greil Marcus]] quotes Sontag from a Time interview, 10/24/1988: “As for equating high and popular culture, she explains: ‘I made a few jolly references to things in popular culture that I enjoyed. I said, for instance, that one could enjoy both Jasper Johns and the Supremes. It isn’t as if I wrote an essay on the Supremes.” That always sounded pretty dismissive to me. | |
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| - | In his takedown of Sontag (included in The Dustbin of History), Greil Marcus quotes Sontag from a Time interview, 10/24/1988: “As for equating high and popular culture, she explains: ‘I made a few jolly references to things in popular culture that I enjoyed. I said, for instance, that one could enjoy both Jasper Johns and the Supremes. It isn’t as if I wrote an essay on the Supremes.” That always sounded pretty dismissive to me. | + | |
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"One important consequence of the new sensibility [is] that the distinction between "high" and "low" culture seems less and less meaningful." "If art is understood as a form of discipline of the feelings and a programming of sensations, then the feeling (or sensation) given off by a Rauschenberg painting might be like that of a song by the Supremes. The brio and elegance of Budd Boetticher’s The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond or the singing style of Dionne Warwick can be appreciated as a complex and pleasurable event. They are experienced without condescension." --Susan Sontag, 1965. |
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"One Culture and the New Sensibility" is an essay by Susan Sontag first published in Mademoiselle in 1965. It was later collected in an expanded version in Against Interpretation of 1966. The essay is often referenced for noting that the boundaries between low culture and high culture were disappearing.
In his takedown of Sontag (included in The Dustbin of History), Greil Marcus quotes Sontag from a Time interview, 10/24/1988: “As for equating high and popular culture, she explains: ‘I made a few jolly references to things in popular culture that I enjoyed. I said, for instance, that one could enjoy both Jasper Johns and the Supremes. It isn’t as if I wrote an essay on the Supremes.” That always sounded pretty dismissive to me. s woods February 12, 2013 at 12:56 pm You’re right, Devin, thanks. I would have read that some years ago, and simply forgot the source. I did think of Marcus’s takedown of Sontag while posting this, but didn’t feel the need to pursue further evidence on the subject–don’t think I need his dismissal (though I’m sure he helped) to convince me that she’s basically full of shit here (I won’t dismiss her work entirely, not being familiar with hardly any of it). Even the original quote from ’65 is a bit laughable, especially the line “can be appreciated as a complex and pleasurable event.” See Nat Hentoff’s throwaway line about Ralph Gleason and “pop culture” in this post to begin to understand why.
