Modernism, postmodernism, or neither? A fresh look at "fine art".(Viewpoint essay)
Arts Education Policy Review, May, 2006 by Kamhi, Michelle Marder
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In January 2005, trash collectors in Frankfurt, Germany, hauled away what appeared to be a heap of abandoned building materials they had found on a city street. When the head of sanitation later read in the newspaper about an exhibition of public sculpture in progress, he realized that the heap removed by his men and subsequently incinerated was intended to be a work of art.
"I didn't recognize it as art," he said, as reported in the London Guardian. Thirty of the city's sanitation workers were consequently sent to "modern art" classes to learn to avoid such ...
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