The End of Art Kuspit Donald
The End of Art Kuspit Donald Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp…
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The End of Art Kuspit Donald
Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Tracing the demise of aesthetic experience to the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman, Kuspit argues that devaluation is inseparable from the entropic character of modern art, and that anti-aesthetic postmodern art is in its final state. Art has been replaced by "postart," a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the banal over the enigmatic, the scatological over the sacred, cleverness over creativity.
In reaction to the emptiness and stagnancy of postart, Kuspit signals the aesthetic and human future that lies with the old masters. In contrast to modern art, which expressed the universal human unconscious, postmodern art degenerates into an expression of narrow ideological interests. The End of Art points the way to the future for the visual arts. Donald