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“...what is the use of art-criticism? Why cannot the artist be left alone, to create a new world if he wishes it, or, if not, to shadow forth the world which we already know, and of which, I fancy, we would each one of us be wearied if Art, with her fine spirit of choice and delicate instinct of selection, did not, as it were, purify it for us, and give to it a momentary perfection”.

“The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks Upon The Importance of Doing Nothing”

Oscar Wilde 

 1891

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Wasn’t there anyone else there to lavish you with attention?

“Lost in translation”

Sofia Coppola

2003

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Diane Arbus. Woman with eyeliner

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Diane Arbus, Xmas Tree In A Living Room In Levittown, Long Island, 1963.

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“The Isle” (2000) 

Kim Ki-duk

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Хорошо, когда человек обманывает ваши ожидания, когда он расходится с заранее составленным представлением о нем. Принадлежность к типу есть конец человека, его осуждение. Если его не подо что подвести, если он не показателен, половина требующегося от него налицо. Он свободен от себя, крупица бессмеритя достигнута им.

Пастернак “Доктор Живаго”

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Robert Mapplethorpe, Iris, 1989

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“Степень раздетости Силии была столь высока, что она не могла проводить его до двери, поэтому ей пришлось удовлетвориться вскарабкиванием на стул и выглядыванием из окна”

Беккет “Мерфи”

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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Damien Hirst 1991

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Tense, Anya Gallaccio

The paper was pasted on the walls, and on the floor Gallaccio made an oblong 'carpet' comprising one ton of Valencia oranges which gradually decayed over the duration of the show (31 May - 22 June 1990). Gallaccio has often used natural materials - such as flowers, fruit, and ice - as her raw materials, to create temporary 'paintings' and sculptures in which the process of deterioration and decay is an integral part of the work

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26 October 1993, Henry Bond and Sam Taylor-Wood

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Chris Ofili

No Woman, No Cry

The title of this work is also the name of a 1974 song by the Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley that entreats a female listener not to be sad. The phosphorescent inscription in the painting indicates that the crying woman depicted is Doreen Lawrence (now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE), the mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered as a teenage boy in a racist attack in London in 1993, and the photographs inside the tears in this work are all images of Stephen. Curator Judith Nesbitt has written that ‘Ofili was deeply moved by the way in which Doreen Lawrence’s overwhelming silent grief at her son’s tragic death had been transformed with each successive interview as she became even stronger in spirit and emboldened to speak with great dignity’ (Judith Nesbitt, ‘Beginnings’, in Tate Britain 2010, p.16).

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Myra, created by Marcus Harvey in 1995

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My Bed by Tracey Emin (1998)

The idea for My Bed was inspired by a sexual yet depressive phase in the artist's life when she had remained in bed for several days without eating or drinking anything but alcohol.[2] When she looked at the vile, repulsive mess that had accumulated in her room, she suddenly realised what she had created. Emin ardently defended My Bed against critics who treated it as a farce and claimed that anyone could exhibit an unmade bed. To these claims the artist retorted, "Well, they didn't, did they? No one had ever done that before."[3]

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K Foundation art award

The 1994 K Foundation award was an award given by the K Foundation (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) to the "worst artist of the year". The shortlist for the £40,000 K Foundation award was identical to the shortlist for the well-established but controversial £20,000 Turner Prize for the best British contemporary artist. On the evening of 23 November 1993, Rachel Whiteread was presented with the 1993 Turner Prize inside London's Tate Gallery, and the 1994 K Foundation award on the street outside.

Prior to presenting their award, the K Foundation held a private exhibit of a collection of art works entitled Money - A Major Body of Cash. The award, the exhibition and the accompanying extravagant press junket were widely reported by the media.

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house (rachel whiteread)

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For the Love of God

Damien Hirst 2007