“He recalls a time, in the 1960s, when poets like Robert Frost and painters like Jackson Pollock were as closely followed by the ‘educated middle class’ as TV celebrities are today.”
— Holman Jenkins Jr., writing in the WSJ about David Gelernter, one of my very favourite authors and thinkers. If what he remembers about the public attitude towards artists in the 60s is true, then I can’t help feeling sad that I missed it, and wondering how it could be brought about again.
