into that poetic art, however, which marches hand in hand with her sister arts towards the perfect Artwork; -- and this artwork is none other than the Drama.” [439W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 138-139]
[440W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 196-197]
[P. 196] {FEUER} “The dramatic Action, as the first postulate of Drama, is … that moment in the entire art-work which ensures its widest understanding. [P. 197] (…) The dramatic Action is thus the bough from the Tree of Life which, sprung therefrom by an unconscious instinct, has blossomed and shed its fruit obediently to vital laws, and now, dissevered from the stem, is planted in the soil of Art … . But now, become its ‘objectivation’, it upholds to Life the picture of its own existence, and lifts unconscious Life to conscious knowledge of itself.” [440W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 196-197]
[441W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 207]
[P. 207] {FEUER} “If we have finally proved that the Folk must of necessity be the Artist of the future, we must be prepared to see the intellectual egoism of the artists of the Present break forth in contemptuous amazement at the discovery. They forget completely that in the days of national blood-brotherhood, which preceded the epoch when the absolute Egoism of the individual was elevated to a religion, -- the days which our historians betoken as those of prehistoric myth and fable, -- the Folk, in truth, was already the only poet, the only artist; that all their matter, and all their form if it is to have any sound vitality – they can derive alone from the fancy of these art-inventive peoples” [441W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 207]
[442W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 208-209]
[P. 208] “Yet reflect! That this rabble is in no wise a normal product of real human nature, but rather the artificial outcome of your denaturalised culture; that all the crimes and abominations with which ye now upbraid the rabble, are only the despairing gestures of the battle which the true nature of Man wages against its hideous oppressor, modern Civilisation; and that these revolting features are nowise the real face of Nature, but rather the reflection of the hypocritical mask of your State-, and Criminal-Culture. (…)
{FEUER} So long as ye intellectual egoists and egoistic purists shall blossom in your artificial atmosphere, there must needs be somewhere a ‘stuff’ from whose vital juices ye may distil your own sweet perfumes; and this stuff, from which ye have sucked out all its inbred scent, is but that foul-breathed rabble whose approach inspires you with disgust, and from whom ye only ward yourselves by that very perfume ye have squeezed from out its native comeliness. (…) And – saddest tale of all! – when in this disproportionately burdened section of the Folk the [P. 209] sheerest utilitarianism has thus become the moving spirit of all its energy, then must the revolting spectacle be exhibited of absolute Egoism enforcing its laws of life on every hand and, from the visage of the town and country rabble, reflecting back its hatefullest grimaces upon yourselves.” [442W-{9-12/49} The Artwork of the Future: PW Vol. I, p. 208-209]
