A Quote by Igor Stravinsky
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
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Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
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