The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3934   Message #44270
Posted By: Pete M
04-Nov-98 - 08:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Jerusalem (The English Song)
Subject: RE: Lyrics For
Jo, surely you're not serious? I can't see then empathiszing at all! Peter Blakes designs, and intent, are, to my mind, profoundly rooted in the materialistic culture that Blake was attacking. That they were percieved at the time as radical and potentially anti-establishment I think mistakes a difference of interest for a difference of values. Art produced to market a product to a target population who want to be seen as "different" is ephemeral by nature, and must operate within the dominant value system.
Blake's art continues to disturb as it attacks the value systems practiced and embraced by the Establishment then and now.

Sorry, end of lecture.

Pete M