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...people think "new music" and they think "weird, abrasive music." For a long time, a lot of composers had the idea that "if the public likes it, we must be doing something wrong." [A long discussion on Dada and composer Philip Glass ensues...
Gorey's taste for deadpan absurdity is sharpened by what he has called his "unreasonable interest in surrealism and Dada." He is a great fan of surrealist Max Ernst, and, just as Ernst rearranged 19th-century engravings into his own fantastic collages, Gorey recombines the elements of forgotten Victorian novels, reshuffling the set pieces and stock characters after his fancy. One of my favorites, The Object-Lesson, is constructed along these lines, piling delicious non sequitur on delicious non sequitur, like this: "It was already Thursday, but his lordship's artificial limb could not be found; therefore, having directed...
...high you get on him depends on your cultural expectations. Polke has influenced a slew of younger American painters, and been hailed as the man who set painting in the '80s free--as if it had been languishing in bondage before!--by reviving, once more, the spirit of Dada that breathed through such movements as the Fluxus group in the '60s. He's the arch-trickster, mocking all art styles, sending up the dreaded Canon. (The fact that no work of art by a famous artist these days can safely be considered really and truly outside the Canon seems...
...Slim Shady LP. On a song titled '97 Bonnie & Clyde, a ripping satire of Will Smith's treacly Just the Two of Us, Eminem raps about pushing his troublesome spouse off a pier while their daughter looks on. "There goes mama splashing in the water/ No more fighting with dada/ No more restraining order." Edgy stuff, even by rap standards...
...mannequins, the frightened dada, the busy montage, the cold Bauhaus design: All this could be funneled into some superficial critique of the continuities between Weimar culture and fascism. But such an approach would ignore peculiar versatility Weimar artists showed in reacting to and using these new modern themes...