Tuesday, May 24, 2016

their own uses

We can now also begin to see that Modern Art enjoyed all the glories of the Consummation stage after the First World War not because it was "finally understood" or "finally appreciated" but rather because a few fashionable people discovered their own uses for it. - Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word

[italics are by Tom Wolfe]

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Avant-Garde and Kitsch by Clement Greenberg

Авангард и китч

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