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You've no doubt heard the argument that modern art is a racket engineered by art dealers, that the whole thing is a kind of vast and very expensive practical joke. In a letter to Esther Harding (7/8/47), Carl Jung wrote, "I am only prejudiced against all forms of modern art. It is mostly morbid and evil on top [of that]." Our illustration is from Fliegende Blätter, 1931.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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