Slide 9251
View of the Alexander Rodchenko exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1971. “It is the number that counts, not what they are doing there, not what leads them there or what they gain by coming there.”
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Slide 9253
These three-dimensional kitsch interpretations of an Albrecht Dürer drawing, Hands of an Apostle, reveal one aspect of “a widely shared or mass taste…catered to by the production of standardized objects.”
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Slide 9254
These three-dimensional kitsch interpretations of an Albrecht Dürer drawing, Hands of an Apostle, reveal one aspect of “a widely shared or mass taste…catered to by the production of standardized objects.”
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Slide 9255
Along a New Jersey highway, motorists who otherwise might never see the masterpiece are regaled by the famed Blue Boy. “Art is thought of as an instrument of improvement—an effect it has neither on those who care for it nor on those who don’t.”
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Slide 9256
Principal entrance to the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. “Art was usually commissioned for a specific occasion and destined to adorn a specific room, building piazza, church, grave, etc.”
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Slide 9257
Rembrandt, Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, oil, 1663; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. “Look, we don’t only have the Rembrandts you are bored by. We also have a new! Rembrandt! Which must be wonderful! It cost a million!”
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Slide 9258
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“A museum seems as unlikely to replace purchasers [of contemporary art] as a cemetery is to replace life.”