{"id":25000,"date":"2011-08-15T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-how-the-war-will-change-art\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:25:29","slug":"theatlantic-how-the-war-will-change-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-how-the-war-will-change-art\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25000 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-how-the-war-will-change-art\/attachment\/25001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lpz3rpQF1g1qcokc4o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/8951687083\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/08\/how-the-war-will-change-art\/243563\/\">How the War Will Change Art<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rising evil is concomitant with the destruction of art. Before anyone had heard of the Mullah Omar, NPR described to the world the obliteration of the Bamiyan buddhas. No vision of the Third Reich is complete without mountains of \u201cdegenerate\u201d texts set ablaze, the deckled edges of Hemingway and Marx and Einstein curling into black as the printed words fade into ember. Yet though the dogmatist and the totalitarian and the theocratic would\u00a0<em>try<\/em>\u00a0to use violence to destroy art, as Bulgakov once wrote: \u201cManuscripts don\u2019t burn.\u201d Indeed, Orson Welles famously observed in a Carol Reed film that war can facilitate the conditions for great art. But during the act itself \u2014 of the squeezing of triggers and the releasing of JDAMs \u2014 art almost by definition cannot exist in those moments. War is the absence of art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2011\/08\/how-the-war-will-change-art\/243563\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theatlantic: How the War Will Change Art Rising evil is concomitant with the destruction of art. Before anyone had heard of the Mullah Omar, NPR described to the world the obliteration of the Bamiyan buddhas. No vision of the Third Reich is complete without mountains of \u201cdegenerate\u201d texts set ablaze, the deckled edges of Hemingway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[861,101,859,609,318,860],"class_list":["post-25000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","tag-afghanistan","tag-art","tag-lit","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-war","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25002,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25000\/revisions\/25002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}