In the room the women come and go shitting on Michelangelo. Today’s offense comes from artnetnews, and is about a conceptual artist who figured out how to cut Michelangelo down to size, while elevating himself to mammoth proportions. The idea behind the conceptual artwork above is that status changes, and what was once grand is…
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Don’t you know about No Hands art and de-skilled art? … No cutting-edge artist touches materials anymore, or instruments. Be just a little patient and indulge me, in which case you’ll find out where that quote comes from soon enough, and what I think of it. I was recently on a vacation in Kampot from…
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I don’t know if it’s really all that good. Yesterday I was discouraged. There’s no sign of making money or being able to support myself on art. My latest piece also seems to be getting a cool reception. But then, even if I don’t make any money and have to go back to working for…
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The “readymade” was invented by a poet in 1915. “What is the difference between a ketchup label, and a poem?” asked poet Ivor Unsk. A little known poet and drinking companion of Marcel Duchamp, Russian immigrant Unsk was the person who originally conceived of the “readymade”. Unsk’s readymade poems were not accepted by the literary…
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Any takers? Can you guess what I think is the problem here? It seems to point to a real problem with contemporary art, and how we think about it, which significantly DOESN’T apply to other creative genres like music, film, or literature.
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