Poeisis in Bali

Describing an emergent “systems esthetics” in the fall of 1968, in a context overdetermined by publication of the first color image of earth relayed from space on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog (published in the Fall of 1968; the image dated from 1966) and rendered ever more urgent by the Vietnam War and the growing impact of the feminist, civil rights, and anti-war movement—the critic and art historian Jack Burnham proposed “the state of present art” be understood as the flux attending a Kuhnian epistemological shift. [1]