The Temple of Night

Abstract

To write on art is always to appear to write on something that is too safe. In a sense, the struggles of the avant-gardes, of the modern against the classical, have been forgotten, the battle has been won, the artwork is a wise investment and commands a high price; it is sought for the collection of the film star and the businessman; the work is commissioned by left-leaning governments to restore a lost sense of community to ‘culturally deprived’ areas.