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Conceptual art dates back to 1917, when Marcel Duchamp first displayed his "fontaine" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29 http://en.wikipedia.
by wazoox 15y ago
Conceptual art dates back to 1917, when Marcel Duchamp first displayed his "fontaine" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29 ). Apparently, nearly 100 years later most people not directly interested in art didn't get it. Modern art museum are filled with similar works.
- prodigal_erik 15y agoI'm fine with not getting it. Fountain was the day we learned the art world can no longer pass the test of "The Emperor's New Clothes". Claims of art without craft and a moving beauty are at best disposable props for rhetoric, if not merely trolling gullible collectors.
- wazoox 15y agoArt is a social manifestation. In an industrial world where any machined object is more perfect than the best handcraft work, the importance of craft is deemed unimportant by modern art. And beauty is mostly relative, anyway. Yes, modern art is cynicism and relativism at its best, with a touch of snobbishness... At least, one indisputable advantage is that it pisses off conservatives :)