let us drink to aesthetic dystopia...here's to the muse...in absentia

....art museums have existed for barely two hundred years. They bulked so large in the nineteenth century,   and are so much part of our lives today that we forget they have imposed upon the spectator a wholly new attitude towards the work of art. For they have tended to estrange the works they bring together from their original functions and to transform even portraits into ‘pictures'.


                      Andre' Malraux --1940





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