Beauty is Ugliness at Rest focuses on reviews, primarily, though not exclusively, of new Canadian art.
Showing posts with label Joe Becker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Becker. Show all posts
Saturday, August 6, 2011
The Painter as Barbarian: An Appreciation of Joe Becker
We live in a therapeutic society because there is no culture here, only a market. A culture is predicated on sacrifice and capitalism, as Adam Smith and everyone after him has known, is incapable of sacrifice. Instead, it has a kind of pious sado-masochism where nothing ever really happens and the social contract amounts to a fanatical aversion to facing reality. The common sense of this world is a make believe pasture where everyone's masturbatory whims are turned into sacred cows.
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