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Originally Posted by javadog
I've read the entire thread, thank you very much. I have also seen the recommendations.
Now getting back to my point, I would suggest that some of the people posting in this thread should buy a book that explains some of the art in the world. Note that this book would be nothing like Rape of the Masters and would not concern itself with the art market whatsoever.
Clear enough?
JR
PS; Maybe, just maybe, the world doesn't actually revolve around you and I was really speaking to someone else. After all, it appears that you might read books...
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first, rape of the masters has nothing to do with the art market. it is simply a collection of deconstruction, post structuralist, radical feminist essays reprinted with pictures of the paintings being analyzed. they are beyond parody.
i read it all in school. greenberg, foucault, derrida, demann. the whole field depends on ignoring one very important point. if a work of art has to be explained to be appreciated, then it has failed. the modern abstract movement has taken it further. deliberately being incomprehensible. turning art nto a circle jerk for themselves and the critics. the next wave, is to deny the importance of "meaning" in art at all. this took hold some time in the 80s. it was being called post-post-modernism when i stopped paying attention.
and the world does too revolve around me.