David Cartwright

i am sick
i am twisted
i am outside looking in
i am inside staring out
i am longing
i am belonging
i am quiet
i am loud
i am clarity
i am confusion
i am


New York critic Harold Rosenberg commenting on Avant Garde Art culture suggested that from the mid-1960s onward progressive culture ceased to fulfill its former adversarial role. Since then it has been flanked by what he called "avant-garde ghosts" to the one side, and a changing mass culture on the other, both of which it interacts with to varying degrees. This has seen culture become, in his words, "a profession one of whose aspects is the pretense of overthrowing it."



the knack
art wars

"no i don't give a shit about warhol
and oldenberg's really gone soft in the brain
now dali just wants to be cornholed
with one of those crutches he sold to man ray

yes calder was hung up on mobiles
and rauchenberg gives a particular pain
now art's just another distraction
like tv commercials that won't go away

bourgeois what's the deal
don't want no dada
no don't try to hand me no fantasy
it's for surreal

when your taste is confined to their palates
and their pictures are easily framed on your walls
did you ever consider the malice aforethought
con...

beyond school