It had its flaws (‘humanity’ did, for many of these artists, mean ‘white, male, upper middle class humanity’) and its darknesses (some of those ‘unifying visions’ were quite openly aligned to fascism), but the post-modernist backlash has has left us in a place where art is barely taken seriously at all – it’s an entertaining ‘garnish’ for the elite. read more
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