/lit/ - Literature

>>10404373
I'm gonna go bold and a little half-baked here but I think it might have something to do with Cultural relevance. People in general gravitate art that speaks to the times, one can imitate the art of the past, through archaic language and styles, but I feel the real way to grab people's attention (artistically 'initiated' or otherwise) is through making a work that manages to reflect the modern climate whilst looking to the future. I think that's why rap has superseded poetry, you just can't make Keats shit anymore, you're only gonna be targeting a very niche class of people who already like that shit. People need startling examples, innovation, and something they can place within a culture (which no doubt has shaped them). I know its a meme but look at Death Grips: their Philosophy is built on speed, acceleration, futurism, information overload. And that pervades all aspects of their music. Look at The Dark Knight, that in itself is a Post 9/11 Cultural Artifact that, intentionally or not, spoke to the threat of terrorism in a modern environment, it wasn't regressive or retrospective, it was now. And it was all entertainment, too often 'Art' is associated with waxing pretensions and it is that case that people read less, want 'snippets' and speed over tomes. Likely due to the Internet and whatever. Infinite Jest the same, and so many cultural phenomena. I feel that's what's needed to shake people from apathy, from there people may take an interest in the history of the arts but I dunno.