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June 17, 2013

Lost

"What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890?

Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants." Robert Hughes, in the Shock of the New €

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 17, 2013 5:41 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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