{"id":2008,"date":"2009-02-25T01:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-02-25T01:53:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T01:53:37","slug":"its_for_posteri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"It’s For Posterity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOver at Normblog<\/a>, Norm Geras (one of the UK’s best bloggers!!) posted a challenge:<\/p>\n

The story is that, civilization approaching its possible doom (not really, but it’s the premise of the poll), the normblog readership has been assigned the task of assembling for posterity a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind, to be preserved in a sealed container so that some future beings of intelligence, discernment and taste can discover it and be impressed. That’s you and me, and also you. What we all have to do is to nominate under the following 12 headings those artists whose work we would like to see going into the sealed container…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to cheat and do it twice, once for people who I think everyone should agree must be there – “Standards”, and once for people who I think might not be so well-known “Upstarts” – who are likely to be my personal choices.<\/p>\n

Everyone \/ Upstart<\/p>\n

1. Poet – Homer \/ Mark Doty
\n2. Playwright – Shakespeare \/ Tom Stoppard
\n3. Novelist – Vladimir Nabokov \/ Jim Harrison
\n4. Composer – Johannes Sebastian Bach \/ Igor Stravinsky
\n5. Jazz musician – Miles Davis \/ Joe Williams
\n6. Rock or pop star\/group – The Who \/ The Clash
\n7. Country music ditto – The Carter Family \/ Johnny Cash
\n8. Movie director – Francis Ford Coppola \/ John Ford
\n9. Painter – Picasso \/ Marie Cassat
\n10. Photographer – Imogen Cunningham \/ W. Eugene Smith
\n11. Sculptor – Constantin Brancusi \/ Joseph Cornell
\n12. Architect – Christopher Wren \/ Frank Gehry <\/p>\n

Drop Norm an email and play yourself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal picks 24 artists for a time capsule<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}