08-09-2022, 06:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-09-2022, 06:37 PM by Eric the Green.)
I will still posit the great artistic achievement of the Silent Generation was the folk music revival, and its transformation into folk rock-- a major part of the greatest era of popular music, and why it developed genuinely artistic traits.
I'm not too aware of that distinction you made of Silent comics as self-effacing. The comic actors I remember were GIs and Lost. I don't know if comedy is the most typical representation of "art"; music seems to fit that title of "artist" better, as well as better fitting the topic of this thread: a cultural awakening; a confluence of inspired creative energy. I know that some of the best architects of our time have also been Silents.
But I do remember the set of famous actors who were the same age as those folk revivalists (a few of whom I mentioned above but there was also Peter Paul and Mary and many more), and they seemed to epitomize a Silent or adaptive attitude at least somewhat, as S&H described them, especially Woody Allen and Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds were also of this age. Those who have survived from this 1936-38 era are now well into their 80s.
I'm not too aware of that distinction you made of Silent comics as self-effacing. The comic actors I remember were GIs and Lost. I don't know if comedy is the most typical representation of "art"; music seems to fit that title of "artist" better, as well as better fitting the topic of this thread: a cultural awakening; a confluence of inspired creative energy. I know that some of the best architects of our time have also been Silents.
But I do remember the set of famous actors who were the same age as those folk revivalists (a few of whom I mentioned above but there was also Peter Paul and Mary and many more), and they seemed to epitomize a Silent or adaptive attitude at least somewhat, as S&H described them, especially Woody Allen and Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds were also of this age. Those who have survived from this 1936-38 era are now well into their 80s.