Controversial Modern Art

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Shock art is contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a way to disturb "smug, complacent and hypocritical" people.^[2] While the art form's proponents argue that it is "imbedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today".^[3]^[4] But while shock art may attract curators and make headlines, Reason magazine's 2007 review of The Art Newspaper suggested that traditional art shows continue to have more popular appeal.

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0:07.9	But yeah, fair, but man, we get patent in Marvel.
0:13.1	He was in Agents' Shield.
0:14.9	Nobody watched Agents' Shield.
0:16.9	So he's like, okay.
0:19.4	That is a great question.
0:21.0	Thank you.
0:22.0	So, clip-clop Tom Ehrer originally started as a sort of meta commentary on Tom's under
0:27.1	representation in cold opens.
0:29.8	Right, right.
0:30.8	But we should point out Tom was the first to die in the cold open.
0:35.1	So in many ways, clip-clop Tom was his own eventual question.
0:39.5	What are you guys doing?
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0:43.5	No illusions and Cecil's something, Italian.
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0:49.0	What is this?
0:50.0	Why are you doing this?
0:51.5	Well, you know with Eli's essay about modern art this week, we thought it might be fun
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