Episode 33: The Fine Art of Changing the Subject: On Duchamp's 'Fountain'
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Weird Studies Podcast - The Black Monolith
I was reminded while you were talking about that, I'm going back now to when I was writing reclaiming art. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture is one of the most brilliant documents of the 20th century. He describes a primitive human finding some strange object in the wilderness and trying to figure out what it is. So also we, holding art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters. Boldly we direct it, we renew, reform, and manifest it. We sell it for money, we use it to please those in power, but art is not defiled by our efforts. Neither does it thereby depart from its true nature, but on each occasion
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