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When art becomes inhuman. (Bird's Eye).
Many of today's avant-garde artists, I've decided, have modeled themselves on that well-known societal fixture, the snot-nosed teenager. Since the 1960s, the hippest modern art has aspired to exactly what every garden-variety 13-year-old brat aims for: maximum opportunities to shock, flout, insult, and otherwise chuck rocks at polite society.
And so "artists" spread American flags on the floor and invited gallery and museum patrons to walk on them. "Sculptors" stacked bricks in low heaps and convinced collectors to pay bags of money for something they could have made themselves after a shopping trip to Home Depot. Damien Hirst piled up empty beer bottles, ...
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