Extract From ‘Going Public’ by Boris Groys
“Obviously, these artists did not seek to please the public, to satisfy its a aesthetic desires. But neither did the avant-garde artists want to shock the public, to produce displeasing images of the sublime. In our culture, the notion of shock is connected primarily to images of violence and sexuality. But neither Malevich’s Black Square […]
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