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Art Of The Negative

By The Daily Dish
Oct 5 2008, 2:27 AM ET

Roger Kimball announces the "end of art:"

By universalizing the spirit of opposition, the avant-garde’s ­project has transformed the practice of art into a purely negative enterprise, in which art is either oppositional or it is nothing. Celebrity replaces aesthetic achievement as the goal of art.



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