Art since World War II
- World War II caused a complete collapse of artistic values
- An aesthetic of shock was born: art as a shock against the traditional taboos and prevailing aesthetic codes
- Artistic innovation still consists in finding ever new ways to challenge aesthetic, social, political and religious dogmas
- The more controversy the more creative the artist
- The anxiety of the Cold War gave a tragic mood to much of this program
- Art in the 1990s benefited from the end of the Cold War in that the tragic mood increasingly became a comic mood
- Art became "play", a way to make people smile and laugh
- Art became entertainment for a society much less preoccupied with its own survival and with a short attention span
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