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I just love to see art being pushed forward. We had Duchamp with his pissoir in 1920. I remember someone exhibiting a goldfish in a blender. And now this ...
by throwaway4good 6y ago
I just love to see art being pushed forward.
We had Duchamp with his pissoir in 1920. I remember someone exhibiting a goldfish in a blender. And now this ...
They would say that art is what happens between the artwork and the observer. But of course it is much broader than that. There is also the artist, the story, the room, the broader society and ... the market.
- UncleMeat 6y agoBut notice how virtually zero of this discussion is about the content of the work. Just its sale mechanism. Even the banana on the wall had people discussing its nature as art.
- vmception 6y agoFor me that piece is hard to see. There have been discussions about it and its value, here on HN. Mostly people that were mad that they exchanging a fixed amount of time in a small range of price per hour for money instead of creating an unlimited number of assets and exchanging them at an unlimited range of prices.
- throwaway4good 6y ago50 years later when they were taught about it in high school, people discussed its nature as art. When the works where published they were seen as scams, pranks, criminality, and insults.