Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
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Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter
Source: 1956 - 1967, Art-as-Art Dogma' part II, (1964), p. 155
Hugo Ball (1886–1927) German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists
quoted by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby (eds.) in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music; Schirmer, New York, 1996 ISBN 0028645812
after 1916
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_oh_to_be.html (Summer 2003). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Introducing our Argument
Cannibals and Christians (1966)
Context: We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd … Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste…? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006) http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/artshowentry/introduction2/ <br class="br">Context: I don't do art to address other people but to address myself. I've never done art with a thought of being a professional artist who makes a living by selling his art. I've never had a commercial show in a gallery. I suppose I'm like those who write poetry or songs without seeking publication. I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.
Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter
Source: posthumous, Astract Expressionist Painting in America, p. 64, in an unpublished letter of Gorky
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) Brazilian writer
Games for Actors and non-Actors (1992)
Context: Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a dance piece where the dancers danced in the first act and in the second showed the audience how to dance? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see a musical where in the first act the actors sang and in the second we all sang together?... This is... how artists should be—we should be creators and also teach the public how to be creators, how to make art, so that we may all use that art together.
Raj Patel (1972) British academic
About democracy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dV7N-QGV_w (Retrieved on July 20, 2010.)