Utmost artistic abstraction can become nature’s own eloquent language
Evidence
The pure expression of works of art, freed from reifying disturbances, as well as from so-called natural materials, converges with nature, just as, in the most authentic creations of Anton Webern, the pure sound to which these works reduce themselves, by force of their subjective sensibility, transforms itself into natural sound. Admittedly, it is the sound of a nature that has become eloquent; it is the language of nature, not merely the reflection of a part of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 684
Categorization
- XREF: Links to the reader’s Webern and twelve-tone material highlights: subjective construction flipping into natural sound is the mechanism behind Adorno’s nature-domination reading. — connects to: Art spiritualized over two centuries draws closer to nature, not further from it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 684; Art and play preserve depth only by retaining life’s traces in autonomous forms; Objectivity in art requires building forms from the self rather than borrowing them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 280 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Art spiritualized over two centuries draws closer to nature, not further from it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 684; Art and play preserve depth only by retaining life’s traces in autonomous forms; Objectivity in art requires building forms from the self rather than borrowing them — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 280 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Art achieves objective revelation through subjective effort only at the cost of illusoriness
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