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abominable ideas in art art art criticismMarch 31, 2019October 12, 2019

Abominable Ideas About Art #3: The Public Decides What Art Means

The art world is filled with bad ideas that are repeated like scripture, and accepted as truisms. Most of them presume to make sweeping statements about all art, and establish a hierarchy with their chosen art at the pinnacle. I’ve dismantled a bunch of the worst of these ideas in lengthy articles, but here I’ll…

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art criticism philosophyAugust 27, 2018April 13, 2022

“The Death of the Author” Debunked.

The belief that “the author is dead” is one of the unquestioned bad ideas that has become gospel in the art world. It’s usually just asserted — along with its companion notions that originality is impossible, and the artist’s intent is irrelevant — as if to deny it is as hopelessly naive as denying evolution.…

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