[C19fan]

Geneva, birth place of Dada, will try to cash in on art tourism dollars which is probably going to cause Dada artists to roll around in their graves. If you want a very nice readable overview of Modernism I would recommend Peter Gay's "Modernism: The Lure of Heresy". One of major thesis in Gay's book is only in liberal societies with a large bourgeois class could Modernism, many of whom railed against the middle and upper classes, have the breathing space and financial support to thrive. My take is there were experiments against the traditional way of doing things that were made many failed but some with great success like the Impressionists, Cubists, and composers like Stravinsky. Some of the modernists like Kandinsky and Malevich were very affirming of the spiritual quality of man. The fact that Dada was dead by 1930 says something.

[IronJack]

If you can't raise the bridge, lower the river. If you can't hurdle the bar, lower it. If you have no talent, change the rules of the art form until you become an artist.

It's interesting that the post-Modernist trend is coming full circle. Read Jurgen Habermas's theory of post-post-Modernism, in which he essentially admits that a world without any transcendent standards is liable to be a hell on earth.

[Jeff Chandler]

The statue outside the Orange County Museum of Art perfectly illustrates the modern artist's attitude towards the public:

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[Liberty Valance]

dada ping

[a fool in paradise]

Anti-art has since become the post-modern entirety of the art establishment.

[blueunicorn6]

“Refers to the tail of a sacred cow”

Close, but no ceegar. It refers to the part of the sacred cow under the tail.

[PoloSec]

There is very little ART today; most of it can be classified under communist propaganda.

[Dr. Thorne]

'Nuff said.

[mjp]

Of them all, James Joyce was the only one with real talent, but Finnegan’s Wake, that unreadable effusion, shows how Dada had got to him.

Joyce and Dada are good examples of the disintegrated mode of thought. This anti integration mentality is the end result of Kantianism. It rejects all previous approaches to art, such as classicist,Romanticist, and Naturalist alike.In politics, this mode of thought leads to nihilistic libtard policies such as egalitarianism, social justice,justice as fairness,and environmentalism, which will eventually destroy prosperity.

[Republicanprofessor]

What unfortunately is lso happening, with all the socialist emphasis on postmodernism and political theorizing in art, is that the graduate students and curators nowadays are driven by political theory instead of visual analysis. They don’t know how to look at paintings formally and tend to see all styles equally because they can’t analyze the difference between a strong use of form and content and weak socialist drivel.

[dfwgator]

My definition of art, “If it’s something I could do, it ain’t art.”

[goldstategop]

I was never fond of Dada... but I do like surrealism.

[notted]

Dada has always reminded me of a high school prank, and although I will agree, that; “the purpose of art had been to say something about humanity, and how to be a human being.” It seems to me that this idea is of a description of the proper function of art, rather than the actual information lacking in art.

I think that the visual arts have many purposes depending on the audience. I do not think the general public has any reason to care about the visual arts anymore, considering, that most contemporary artists seem to be subversive infantile Marxists, and this in a country ruled by the Lord of the Flies.