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November 30, 2013
Where modern architecture fails to dissuade, we have modern fashion.
Gone are the mens' suit, leather boots, fine tailored hats and coats, detailed dresses for women, or sartorial standards of any kind. The youth are half naked and in a perpetual cycle of hippy revolution against an unseen sexually conservative oppressor that does not exist. Prevailing cyclical modern themes are garish colours, sweat pants, t-shirts, oft inspired by an endlessly repeating phenomenon of slutty pop stars based upon the model of the careless, free-wheeling whore perpetually giving the finger to a patriarchal history. Modern Art: An Artful Swindle
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 30, 2013 5:56 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I disagree with the author, Buffalo, on this one. He confuses Modern art with Post Modernism. The former was a period of progress and optimism, if you will. Post-Modernism is the negative response to Modernism. In the Modernist era, artists did begin from universal techniques and elements in art, and you might disagree, but I see forward movement in art and culture in that period.
Posted by: Casey Klahn at November 30, 2013 8:10 PM
Correct, Kasey. Modernism is Yeats, Pound, Eliot and Joyce; Stravinsky, Schoenberg; Picasso, Matisse. No elements of PoMo anywhere among them.
Posted by: Doug at November 30, 2013 11:13 PM
Fine lot of commenters on that article.....did you read them?
Posted by: pbird at December 1, 2013 6:40 AM
Reno Dance Party
Posted by: Will at December 2, 2013 4:29 AM
It looks like a Zombie got dressed up.
Posted by: Arlene at December 2, 2013 4:50 PM
It looks like a Zombie got dressed up.
Posted by: Arlene at December 2, 2013 4:50 PM
(And I'm sorry I posted twice)
Posted by: Arlene at December 2, 2013 4:52 PM
(And I'm sorry I posted twice)
Posted by: Arlene at December 2, 2013 4:52 PM
Can you repeat that Arlene?
Posted by: vanderleun at December 2, 2013 7:16 PM