[chajin]

Personal story: when I taught intro to humanities, I would take my classes to the local art museum. During one of these trips, I took them into a room of modern art. In the corner was a thermo-humidigraph, something like this:

After talking about a few of the pieces in the room, on a lark I walked over to the corner and began to describe the humidigraph as a lat 20th century version of Dada-esque art, how it represented the constant measuring and graphing of people in contemporary society and how one loses one's basic humanity in the process. I would have gotten away with it too, if the museum guard behind the group hadn't started laughing his head off at the explanation.

[JoeProBono]

This piece is in the Philly Art Museum

Marcel Duchamp - “L.H.O.O.Q.”, 1919. Dada Art -
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