subjective compendium
Posted by Gordon on December 28, 2010
From cultural appetites [on the scale of Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky, and Godard (who though are "often more avid for cultural debris than for museum-consecrated achievements")] comes the creation of the work of art that is on the order of a subjective compendium: casually encyclopedic, anthologising, formally and thematically eclectic, and marked by a rapid turnover of styles and forms.
Sontag ‘Godard’ Styles of Radical Will Picador 2002 p 152
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