SOCI 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modern Art, Existentialism, Piss Christ
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Trying to show that art changes in the culture before the changes present themselves in other areas of society, cultural lag. The feeling of alienation is also reflected in existentialism and modern art, a type of art that has only come to exist in modernity. Things don"t look like what we think they should look like. In modern art it is difficult to make out what we are looking at. Modern art for barret is a convention of spiritual poverty. A degrading of values, in modern art there is no foreground of background, no center of focal point. No longer a distinction between high art and low art, good art and bad art. Serrano displayed a piece of art in new york called piss christ a jar of piss with a cross in it. Modern artists try to represent the irrationality of human beings.