In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double adva… - Jeanette Winterson

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In the West, we avoid painful encounters with art by trivialising it, or by familiarising it. Our present obsession with the past has the double advantage of making new work seem raw and rough compared to the cosy patina of tradition, whilst refusing tradition its vital connection to what is happening now.