{"content":[{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.843137,"top":0.043136,"width":0.009804000000000035,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"CITY OF FEARS, CITY OF HOPES","bbox":{"left":0.326863,"top":0.13071,"width":0.34610299999999994,"height":0.027239999999999986}},{"text":"By Zygmunt Bauman","bbox":{"left":0.419412,"top":0.174239,"width":0.16090599999999988,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky warned his contemporaries against the","bbox":{"left":0.241516,"top":0.245905,"width":0.58406,"height":0.01932399999999998}},{"text":"not just vain and silly, but also potentially dangerous habit of jumping to conclusions","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.274997,"width":0.6758519999999999,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"about the state of the world and about the direction the world takes: 'Don't paint epic","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.304088,"width":0.675712,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"canvasses during revolutions; they will tear the canvass in shreds'. Mayakovsky knew","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.333331,"width":0.67069,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"well what he was talking about. Like so many other talented Soviet writers, he tasted to","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.362422,"width":0.688325,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"the last drop the fragility of fortune's favours and the slyness of its pranks. Painting epic \n canvasses may be a safer occupation for the painters of our part of the world and our","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.391514,"width":0.699693,"height":0.04553500000000005}},{"text":"time than it was in Mayakovsky's time and place, but this does not make any safer the \n future of their canvasses. Epic canvasses keep being torn in shreds and dumped at","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.449694,"width":0.6786730000000001,"height":0.04553500000000005}},{"text":"rubbish tips.","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.507876,"width":0.09981700000000002,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"The novelty of our times is that the periods of condensed and accelerated","bbox":{"left":0.243781,"top":0.536966,"width":0.582285,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"change called 'revolutions' are no more 'breaks in the routine', like they might have","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.566056,"width":0.657575,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"seemed to Mayakovsky and his contemporaries. They are no more brief intervals","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.595146,"width":0.6355409999999999,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"separating eras of 'retrenchment', of relatively stable, repetitive patterns of life that","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.624238,"width":0.6581089999999999,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"enable, and favour, long-term predictions, planning and the composition of Sartrean \n 'life projects'. We live today under condition of pe r manent revolu t ion. Revolution is the","bbox":{"left":0.14706,"top":0.653329,"width":0.684434,"height":0.04553699999999994}},{"text":"way society nowadays lives. Revolution has become the human society's normal s t ate.","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.708783,"width":0.678369,"height":0.019325000000000037}},{"text":"And so in our time, more than at any other time, epic canvasses risk to be torn in","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.740754,"width":0.642385,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"pieces. Perhaps they'll be in shreds before the paints dry up or even before the painters \n manage to complete their oeuvres. No wonder that the artists today prefer installations,","bbox":{"left":0.147058,"top":0.769846,"width":0.6942309999999999,"height":0.04553499999999999}},{"text":"patched together only for the duration of the gallery exposition, to solid works meant to","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.828027,"width":0.698858,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"be preserved in the museums of the future in order to illuminate, and to be judged by,","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.857119,"width":0.6841919999999999,"height":0.019324000000000008}},{"text":"the generations yet to be born...","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.88621,"width":0.255261,"height":0.019324000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}