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cheap art
(
idea
)
by
ideath
Sat Feb 12 2000 at 23:49:06
(This is lifted from
Bread and Puppet
's book,
What is Cheap Art?
. The date on the back is
1987
. What you can't see are the pictures and the fact that the whole thing is on bright
mustard
paper.)
WHAT IS CHEAP ART?
Bad art
;
cheap
in the sense of:
sloppy
,
unsightly
, unframed, unmatted;
non-valuable
art, because of
slap-dash execution
with poor materials;
ephemeral
art with no
eternal
ambitions
.
Blatant
art,
political
art,
sloganeering
art.
Irrelevant
and
uncivil
art, as far as
self-indulgent
and
self-obsessed
humanity
is concerned; also:
animalistic
art, cow-art, tiger-art, as opposed to
decent human
art (for-gods-only art).
Normal
commonplace
total
cliché
-art, representing reality
artless
ly.
Glossy
, pretty, and
shiny
art--to
promote brightness
.
Art against
Mobil
and other
smartarse
artpromoters and generally against
the business of art
.
eating out alone (as a composition)
commercial art
Commonplace
Artless
My skin felt like I was falling
aesthetic fascism
Bread and roses song
Everything as Art
Unique memory mapping box
The arrogance of the architect
This Business of Art
Exxon Mobil
Memory of my father
Bread and Puppet
dissipation
cliché
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