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The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose. This touches upon questions of copyright for reproduction, the ownership of art presses and publishers, the total policy of public art galleries and museums. As usually
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing
At first astonished, then embittered, and finally indifferent, we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill.
Arthur Wesley Wheen • All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as... See more
Hundertwasser - Text Detail
that great spectacle of babyish helplessness, the economic theory of history.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
political activism means creatively using available tools and material resources, but it should not entail imagining the tools themselves to have intrinsic redemptive values.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“Wilde saw that his reconsideration of aestheticism must deal with social and political ideas in a more concerted fashion than in the earlier days, when he had discussed the beautification of life. A lecture by Bernard Shaw probably stimulated him, though socialism meant something quite different to Wilde. He annoyed his friend Walter Sichel by
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