Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 5In the 20th century, a huge division was torn across the arts in America and Europe. On one side stood a crowd of intellectuals, many of…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 4Alongside Marx’s materialism and Nietzsche’s relativism, Kant’s ideas about judgment became a powerful theme for the 20th Century…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 3If Marx gives us a left-wing political underpinning to avant-garde art, Nietzsche gives us more of its key themes, that deconstruction may…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 2When I first began to get serious about painting I wanted to make work like the great baroque painter Caravaggio, but I couldn’t find any…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Kitsch versus the avant-garde — Part 1Nature is vicious. The food chain requires death. The strong survive because they feed on others. There is no room for sentiment in this…Jul 29, 2019Jul 29, 2019
Published inArc DigitalAn American Revolutionary Guide to 21st-Century ArtAmerican representational artists pursue the sublimeFeb 2, 20192Feb 2, 20192