Comments on: Robert Rauschenberg: Dadaist for the Masses http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:15:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tony http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/comment-page-1/#comment-1890 Tony Wed, 21 May 2008 15:42:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/#comment-1890 Of course it is. Of course it is.

]]> By: Troy Camplin http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/comment-page-1/#comment-1887 Troy Camplin Wed, 21 May 2008 14:24:19 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/#comment-1887 What on earth does sexuality have to do with art history or criticism? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. What on earth does sexuality have to do with art history or criticism? That’s the most idiotic thing I’ve ever heard.

]]> By: Tony http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/comment-page-1/#comment-1882 Tony Wed, 21 May 2008 01:01:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/#comment-1882 "The only exceptions were the ghostly exposed blueprints that Rauschenberg did in 1950 in collaboration with his then wife, the artist Susan Weil. These were the only two works, out of several hundred on view, that communicated any genuine aesthetic emotion. But these works were said to have been Susan Weil’s idea, and they served chiefly to highlight the poverty of everything that surrounded them." Wow.. thank god we have bad heterosexual art critics to sanitize our history for us. Thanks for setting me straight! “The only exceptions were the ghostly exposed blueprints that Rauschenberg did in 1950 in collaboration with his then wife, the artist Susan Weil. These were the only two works, out of several hundred on view, that communicated any genuine aesthetic emotion. But these works were said to have been Susan Weil’s idea, and they served chiefly to highlight the poverty of everything that surrounded them.”

Wow.. thank god we have bad heterosexual art critics to sanitize our history for us. Thanks for setting me straight!

]]> By: Troy Camplin http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/comment-page-1/#comment-1734 Troy Camplin Sat, 17 May 2008 02:08:37 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/#comment-1734 I posted an observation on the passing of Rauschenberg that my brother, an artist, did not much care for. Alas, I'm still hopeful that his passing will mean the passing of postmodernism as an art movement. This is one of the reasons why I have set up THe Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture -- to help us move past postmodernism and the nihilism it embraces. I posted an observation on the passing of Rauschenberg that my brother, an artist, did not much care for. Alas, I’m still hopeful that his passing will mean the passing of postmodernism as an art movement. This is one of the reasons why I have set up THe Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture — to help us move past postmodernism and the nihilism it embraces.

]]> By: Alfredo Martel http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/comment-page-1/#comment-1727 Alfredo Martel Thu, 15 May 2008 20:40:49 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/14/robert-rauschenberg-dadaist-for-the-masses/#comment-1727 And here I thought I was the only one! (I did not make it past the Guggenheim at 5th ave.) And here I thought I was the only one!
(I did not make it past the Guggenheim at 5th ave.)

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