Concerning the debasement of art
Does the highlighted sentence mean:
a. his work has provoked paranoid reactions...
b. these paranoid reactions believe that his work is the cause of the deviation of art...
c. he is poking fun at these paranoid reactions ?
A second advertisement, placed in Artforum, shows Koons as a primary-school teacher, facing a highly engaged class of children, his back to the blackboard that displays the slogans, ‘EXPLOIT THE MASSES’ and ‘BANALITY AS SAVIOUR’. In this instance, Koons claims to show himself indoctrinating very young children and exploiting their vulnerability with the intent to outrage Artforum readers, ‘the people that hate me’, in order to make them hate him even more, ‘because I was taking away their future. I was getting at their future, the youth of tomorrow.’ Here, Koons is at once playing the petulant child and poking fun at the paranoid reactions that his work has provoked concerning the debasement of art. The advertisement also mimics or satirises Joseph Beuys’ famous lecture tours, which relied to a large extent on teaching through the blackboard.
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I'm not sure what you're asking. Your "c" pretty much just repeats the sentence, and it is what is meant. Apparently, we are supposed to already know that Koons has his detractors, who think that work of his type contributes to the debasement of art.
- I'm not sure what you're asking.
- Your "c" pretty much just repeats the sentence, and it is what is meant.
- Apparently, we are supposed to already know that Koons has his detractors, who think that work of his type contributes to the debasement of art.
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I'm not sure what you're asking. Your "c" pretty much just repeats the sentence, and it is what is meant. Apparently, we are supposed to already know that Koons has his detractors, who think that work of his type contributes to the debasement of art.
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