(Friends with Benefits) Hunter Hunt-Hendrix's notes on "Art As Insurrection"

The nature of art is to create and sustain a void. It has been said: 'It is the unintelligibility of the world alone that gives it worth.' As protector of the unintelligible, art has its enemies. It battles against forces of closure or capture, and any agent or object that might fill the void. The nature of art as guardian of the void is an eternal fact. But during the 20th century it became something more – a task. The threat was more real than it had been hitherto. It was be...

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