Albert Camus quote:
Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective. It is also the staggering evidence of man's sole dignity
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Camus never understood art; if he had he could never have been so happy to defend the absurd.
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I have missed nothing. His art like much modern art is a cynical way to make money by doing nothing. Fools rush in to burn their cash and the artists laugh all the way to the bank.
Thank you Chazwyman. I understand conceptual art. I have even written about it. It's rubbish.
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Oh please! There's no way Duchamp made money on his exhibit of the readymades. Nobody was buying and there was no NEA money to tap. DaDaist intentions were pure, imo: a critique of the effete artistic establishment of the times.
You can admit it chaz; you're simply wrong.
Handson, the objection to conceptual art lies in Arthur Danto's Institutional art theory. Art,they say, is what the art world tells us it is. And that's it. The art world tells Damien Hirst he is a great artist (Momento Mori, etc.) and is happy to give him millions for, what, was that chocolate Jesus his? No; it was the bifurcated cow. Of courrse, the cow makes a statement, it jars the senses, it has shock value that cannot be produced writing a thesis. True; true and rubbish, I say. Maybe we do need to have our sensibilities joggled a bit. Do what Guy DeBord did: Go on a derive, an excursion into tparts unknown and experience the world anew. Go meditate. Go to India, sit in the Thar Desert at midnight. Or better: read about the concept and forget the stupid cow in formaldehyde!!