What is a revolutionary artist? Every artist to some extent sees things differently and therefore does something to the art paradigm in which he works, if only to help wear it out and prepare the ground for bolder developments. A completely nonrevolutionary art would be one that is reproduced social norms in a completely normative style (one of the risks of Soviet realism). “You are normal,” as Handke’s Prompter puts it, “once your story is no longer distinguishable from any other story.” (1) But a revolutionary artist is one who sees a distance between experience and the sign language of his art: “There is something art can’t talk about now.”
1 Handke, Kasper and Other Plays, p.80.
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