Book Club: The Advanced Genius Theory by Jason Hartley
In The Advanced Genius Theory, Jason Hartley offers an interesting way to reconsider an artist's late-career work.
In The Advanced Genius Theory, Jason Hartley offers a new way to reinterpret the so-called “lesser” works of artistic geniuses.
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As Hartley said in our interview with him, the Advanced Genius Theory offers an explanation for some of the late-career work of Advanced geniuses like Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. The theory argues that these later works are so advanced that most people (including you) can’t understand or appreciate them.
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Hartley does a fine job of recounting the theory in the book, going into great detail about what separates an Advanced genius from a regular genius, giving plenty of examples of where certain artists fall within the theory along the way. For example: Sting, Advanced. Elton John, not so much.