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Tuesday, December 13, 2005State of the Art. In case you missed it, there was an epic article tucked into the middle of Sunday's New York Times Book Review, a treatise on the state of the art world and how we got here. In this essay, entitled "State of the Art," Barry Gewen uses eight new books -- a diverse collection addressing performance art, postmodernism, antimodernism, "extreme art," art theory, and art criticism -- to try to distill something solid about what art means, what art signifies, and what art should aspire to be. I don't agree with him on all points, but it's a scathing and thoughtful critique that everyone in the art world should sit up and pay attention to. |
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