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Friday May 09, 2003
The Relunctant Gallery-Goer
Excerpt from: But is It Art?: The Value of Art and the Temptation of Theory Book by B. R. Tilghman; B. Blackwell, 1984.
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A persistent feature of the last hundred and more years of art history has been the seasonal recurrence of what Ian Dunlop has labeled The Shock of the New.
On any number of occasions during this period the artworld has been shocked by the appearance of avant garde movements that have seemed to challenge artistic traditions and prevailing conceptions of art. One thinks immediately of the impact made by the first impressionist showings, the fauves, the post-impressionist, the surrealists, and so on. Professional critics and casual gallerygoers alike have been disturbed and puzzled by these new developments that they did not know what to make of.
