>>18512603
describing Breuer's stuff as Bauhaus staples seems accurate
>>18510880
Wolfe is also one of those names that comes up a lot if you frequent used bookstores. Gen X and Boomer shop owners love him.
fair point about it not adding anything though.
I really like Koons, really like pop art, and American modernism. I suppose a large part of that is exposure, my primary vector and educator for art is someone who has a massive respect for pop art, and I guess it's rubbed off on me. He's just so funny.
It's weird, I had someone challenge me recently to explain why I like Rothko, preceded by an autistic diatribe about how art that requires a lecture is illegitimate. Something tells me that the people who fear modernism wouldn't accept transcendence and will to power as suitable explanations for Rothko, the same way they wouldn't accept "he's really funny" as an explanation for Koons, despite neither constituting a lecture. I can understand being suspicious of art, but dismissing it entirely doesn't make much sense to me.