In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.'
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.
The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.