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is a bad investment. Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

is a genre of art that tries to avoid communication with anything other than the unique attributes of the art’s medium.

In his essay on ‘Sculpture in Our Time’, first published in 1958, Greenberg writes, . . the various modernist arts try to confine themselves to that which is most positive and immediate in themselves, which consists in the unique attributes of their mediums. It follows that a modernist work of art must try, in principle, to avoid communication with any order of experience not inherent in the most literally and essentially construed nature of its medium. Among other things, this means renouncing illusion and explicit subject matter.20 p.57

is hard to appreciate in at first if it is any good --- All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

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