Interesting questions from Bernard Miniers THE FROZEN DEAD, the novel I mentioned earlier: Why were people so fascinated by violence? [the commandant] wondered. The avalanche of shocking images on television, in the cinema and in books -- was it a way to stave off fear? Most of these artists only knew violence indirectly, abstractly. They had no real experience of it. If the cops who were confronted by unbearable crime scenes, or the firefighters who had to pull the victims of car accidents from the wreckage every week, or the magistrates who dealt day after day with atrocious cases -- if they all began to paint, sculpt or write, who knows what they would portray, what would come out of them? Would it be the same thing, or something radically different? Id argue that on occasion this very thing has happened and led to some valuable work, such as the books of Joseph Wambaugh.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:53:55 +0000
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