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But in their time, the forties and fifties, Davis’s images of mass culture were on their own. They ran counter to the romantic mainstream, and did not belong to the conventions that Surrealism had engendered. No other major American artists were ready to go so far into the badlands of other media, or to do it with that uniquely balanced mixture of
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When the Fair came to a close on October 17, 1965, Robert Moses was revealed to the public in all his egotism, arrogance and ruthlessness. He was, in fact, portrayed, in the press’s emphasis on the $100,000 a year in salary and expenses and the escrow account, as something worse than he was—greedy for money. He was in public disrepute so great that
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Almost a century later, it gave Jacob Epstein the idea for his Vorticist sculpture, The Rock Drill, 1913–14 (plate 27): a sort of bronze arthropod, mounted on the legs and bit (or penis) of a pneumatic drill. “This,” Epstein later wrote, “is the sinister armoured figure of today and tomorrow. Nothing human, only the terrible Frankenstein’s monster
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I see many more art exhibitions than photography exhibitions. I like photography, but I’m not sure it’s art.
SM
That’s controversial! Why do you think that?
HP
Well not really, but I think the value of photography is a bit suspect. I mean, paintings too. It just depends if you’re dead or not. I was very good friends with Saul Leiter, and just before he
Mark Fisher was possibly the last of a disappearing breed: the music critic as prophet.
þÿMark Fisher,Darren Ambrose • þÿK-punk
so that the art experience is replaced by the excitement of peering at inaccessible capital.
Robert Hughes • The Shock of the New
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Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (Large Glass) 1915–23 Oil and lead wire on glass 109¼ × 69 ins Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier