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a35d265 What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants. metaphor irony idealism confidence avant-garde ebullience meta-modernism shia-lebouf david-foster-wallace post-ironic art culture postmodernism Robert Hughes
ac1b563 In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. Robert Hughes
cb88c2f What strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture. Robert Hughes
b83d8d2 The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events. Robert Hughes
860d8c8 The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. Robert Hughes
7a09d5d How immeasurably fortunate my father was in his faith! Robert Hughes