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...Swatch era began as just a watchand in just one style. Then came the commissionedartists: Kiki Picasso, Keith Haring, FeliceVarini...
...premise of the book is that modernism is a heartening enterprise, a celebration, and should be recognized and applauded as such. Modernist "primitivism" in the vein of Picasso, Derain, Lachaise and Matisse was an attempt to reinvigorate culture, to rediscover the visceral in art, and its impact was a widespread and undeniable celebration of the senses, from Picasso's "The Race" (painted in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and "The Waste Land") to Josephine Baker's Paris performances to the jazz rage of the 1920s and 1930's. Modernism brought with it a sense of sophisticated gusto. It seemed...
...Pablo Picasso...
...shape the sensibilities of an age that saw itself as distinct, cut off from its past. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins," wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922), the poem that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously unheard-of shapes...
...wonders what the long-term effect of this show will be. With luck, it will be at least equal in its impact on artists in the '90s to the one Picasso had in the '80s. We are at present surrounded with art of depressing triviality -- the detritus of late postmodernism; with art that lays claim to remedial social virtue and yet "addresses" social issues in a depleted conceptualist language that is as socially ineffective as it is aesthetically boring. Artists are scared by the past and don't believe in the future...