There’s a logic to the trendline of postmodern art
Related: “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond: Why Art became Ugly.” Foundation for the Advancement of art lecture.
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Related: “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond: Why Art became Ugly.” Foundation for the Advancement of art lecture.
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¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Para más artículos en español:
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This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste,
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I teamed up with artist Michael Newberry to produce this new short book: Art: Modern, Postmodern, and Beyond: A Brief Overview of Why the Art World Has Become Trivial and A Manifesto It contains two previously published essays by philosopher me and an essay and manifesto by artist Newberry. Each has lots of accompanying art
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Coming in August 2021. “In this small but powerful book you will discover: * how modernist reduction led to postmodern nihilism; * why postmodern aesthetics is self-defeating; * how understanding this enables to us to unseat it and replace it with meaningful art; * how good aesthetics leads to flourishing ends; * and how being
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Revisiting a good joke on pretentious literary modernism: “In a single rollicking afternoon McAuley and Stewart cooked up the collected works of Ernest Lalor Malley. Imitating the modern poets they most despised (‘not Max Harris in particular, but the whole literary fashion as we knew it from the works of Dylan Thomas, Henry Treece, and
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At the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Marina Abramović hired a man to lie on a bed and scream for 2.5 hours (or until his voice gives out, according to the show’s pamphlet). Nearby, at the Finglefarber Asylum for the Touchingly Insane, one may also hear a bedded man screaming — but the two
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Art begins in the mind of a creative individual. The artist takes his significant experiences and thoughts as raw material and creates a perceptual embodiment for them. Each artist makes independent judgments about which of his experiences and thoughts are significant. And to the best of his ability and with his unique style, each artist
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