Monet rules the world! (well, at least impressionism does) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Much recent art is part of a rather closed game - and what do you know - it connects with very familiar themes here:
Twenty years ago, a noted art writer lobbed a hand grenade at the smug world of contemporary art. In Has Modernism Failed?, Suzi Gablik castigated a culture in which total submission to "the big, powerful machine" of the art market replaced the artist's independent moral authority. Modern art broke the old rules, creating subversive work intended to shock the viewer into a new way of seeing. But consumer culture eventually co-opted shock value. In Gablik's view, successful artists of the 1970s and early '80s traded their autonomy for the money and security of "institutionalized individuality" offered by aggressive art dealers and museums increasingly reliant on corporate support. http://www.amazon.fr/Has-Modernism-Failed-Suzi-Gablik/dp/0500284849
Twenty years ago, a noted art writer lobbed a hand grenade at the smug world of contemporary art. In Has Modernism Failed?, Suzi Gablik castigated a culture in which total submission to "the big, powerful machine" of the art market replaced the artist's independent moral authority. Modern art broke the old rules, creating subversive work intended to shock the viewer into a new way of seeing. But consumer culture eventually co-opted shock value. In Gablik's view, successful artists of the 1970s and early '80s traded their autonomy for the money and security of "institutionalized individuality" offered by aggressive art dealers and museums increasingly reliant on corporate support.
http://www.amazon.fr/Has-Modernism-Failed-Suzi-Gablik/dp/0500284849
With modern art, you don't know who' pulling whose leg
(that's the polite version) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
http://www.lactamme.polytechnique.fr/Mosaic/descripteurs/Galerie_NonDeterministicFractalGeometryNatu ralPhenomenonSynthesis.FV.html Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
Monet for nothing... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
