Read the Delacroix journal excerpts on the Portal and respond to the following question. Also, you MUST respond to at least one other peer on the blog. You have until 12 noon tomorrow (Friday, 10 January) to complete this post assignment.
(1) Delacroix states that progress is a negative force in nineteenth-century France. Art and philosophy have contributed, in his opinion, to a decline in civilization. This type of degeneration is called "cultural decadence," where art becomes destructive, ugly, and poorly formed, but is nonetheless celebrated. Is all progress destined to become decadence? Do all civilizations eventually collapse under the weight of their culture (i.e., Ancient Rome, Absolutist France)?
