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so sayeth baudrillard

posted by kobayashi on September 25, 2002

... crassness has triumphed in art whose mounds of trivia may be reduced to a single pronouncement of the type: "What we want from you is stupidity and bad taste."


discuss.

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Artists want stupidity and bad taste from society (patrons, critics, viewing public)? Or society wants stupidity and bad taste from artists?

Posted by: mccreath at September 25, 2002 05:55 PM

I want biscuits and gravy, be it from artists or society.

Posted by: Hoyt at September 26, 2002 09:44 AM

i believe, without absolute conviction, that it means is:

the mounds of trivia pronounce: "we want your stupidity and bad taste"... so the art is like that. i suspect the relationship is circular.

Posted by: ttk at September 26, 2002 10:03 AM

can i get extra biscuits here?

Posted by: dick at September 26, 2002 11:49 AM

yes, but they'll taste bad and make you stupid.

Posted by: ttk at September 26, 2002 11:50 AM

Tom, how recent is the quote?

Posted by: mccreath at September 26, 2002 12:14 PM

from 'transparency of evil' published in 1993. so prolly around 1990 or so is when he said it. i'm thinking Koons.

Posted by: ttk at September 26, 2002 12:39 PM

Mmmmmmmm...... stupid biscuits......

Posted by: Hoyt at September 27, 2002 08:24 AM

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