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I could have painted that

“It is easy, of course, to ridicule art created by accident—by asking “what does it represent?” or asserting that “my little child could have done that.” And perhaps the child could. But for these artists that is not the point at all. If we take what they are doing seriously—and, as I shall try to show, their position is a consistent and tenable one—then precisely because the art and aesthetic of the avant-garde represents a radical break with our common cultural convictions, we shall be forced to examine and make explicit those fundamental assumptions about the nature of man, the universe and man’s place in it, which are so much a part of our habitual modes of thought and perception that we unconsciously take them for granted.”—Leonard B. Meyer, Music, the Arts and Ideas, 1967.

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