In a message dated 6/8/12 10:50:20 AM, [email protected] writes:
> I dunno. In the 20thC we saw an artist submit a urinal to a show, > another slice open an eye on camera with a razor, another spatters and > pours paint, another preserves a dead shark, another wraps buildings > in fabric, another casts a decrepit house from the inside. All were > considered important art. Now someone turns a dead cat into a flying > machine, and folks get upset. It might be a useful conundrum for > aesthetes to investigate. > Your insinuation that the flying-cat episode was the first time anyone has been upset by something in an art show is inane. Moreover, the suppressed assumption that the cat-upset was of comparable dimension to the earlier upsets is woefully misplaced.
