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The Ground Division
The gardens at 810
Lorna Simpson
Simpsons work expresses contemporary
society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex.
Martin Heidegger
Heidegger observed that, in the course of over two thousand years of history,
philosophy has attended to all the beings found in the world (including the “world” itself), but has forgotten to ask what “being” itself is.
This is Heidegger’s “question of being,” and it is Heidegger’s fundamental concern throughout his work.
Odd Nerdrum- Norwegian Figurative Painter- on Kitsch Dogmas
In kitsch, all human beings are rendered with respect
-regardless of age or social status.
Kitsch is never ironic.
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