About "Modern Art" and its excesses - a discussion on my facebook page

A copy and paste of my facebook post and subsequent comments as of October 17th 2013
This is the link to the original facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/otto.rapp/posts/10151598172972470

Otto Rapp

11 hours ago near Vienna · 

• I can't believe the stuff those 'experts' will split hair over - another random find surfing the net - the Duchamp "Fountain" disected here:http://www.toutfait.com/issues/issue_3/Multimedia/Shearer/Shearer07.html

  
  

  
  

  Multimedia, TOUT-FAIT: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal

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  Urinals were purchased by Mott, Crane and other plumbing companies from Trenton Potteries in Trenton, NJ. The Bedfordshire urinals in the ASRL collection are all stamped Trenton potteries.

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    Otto Rapp http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/blindman/2/04.htm original article on file here - "Buddha of the Bathroom" by Louise Norton (pages 5 and 6) in THE BLIND MAN magazine, 1917
    

    
    

    Blindman No. 2

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    Michael Divine Because trying to talk about anything "new" takes effort.

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    Philip Rubinov Jacobson perpetual bullshit of the modern art scam...

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    Otto Rapp It is already almost 100 years old! The reason I even found this was surfing the net. As a starting point I researched some of the names in this strange posting http://www.montmartreimpalais.at/artclub-1946/ - once I spied names like Otto Mühl and Herrmann Nitsch I just knew the 'new direction' this artist stammtisch at the Palffy is taking is a slippery slope, to say the least. Some bones need to stay buried, and this old 'artclub' is one of them! To cut and paste stuff off some site or you tube description without comprehension of what it means or having any sense of art history in general (and what the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism stood for) is, to put it mildly, an insult to anyones intelligence. As part of this text says "....die alte Garde der Gschaftlhuber wie A.P. Gütersloh..." is a specific insult to the teacher and founder of the Vienna School. "Gschaftlhuber" in Viennese dialect is untranslatable, but has very negative connotations: it describes someone that sticks his nose into everything.
    Thanks Philip for giving me the opportunity via your above comment to blow off some steam!
    

    
    

    Artclub / 1946 - montmartreimpalaiss Webseite!

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    Von 1947 bis allerspätestens 1959 sammeln sich im Wiener Art-Club die Phantastik...See More

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    Otto Rapp Otto Mühl - this says enough about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl
    

    
    

    Otto Muehl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Otto Muehl (16 June 1925 – 26 May 2013) was an Austrian artist, who was known as...See More

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    Otto Rapp and this, about Hermann Nitsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Nitsch - mind you, against Otto Mühl he is a 'engelwaisenknabe' (angelic orphanboy)
    

    
    

    Hermann Nitsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Born in Vienna, Nitsch received training in painting when studied at the Wiener ...See More

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    Philip Rubinov Jacobson Duchamp's urinal marked the very day that art slipped into the non-sensical - the decline and abandonment of art's power to inspire...and the lineage of bullshit today that is ever present can trace its roots to this 'noble' object of a urinal....Today's art morons are invested in a mode of literal 'crap' whose beginnings they are completely ignorant of....I - among many of us, are so disgusted, and fed up with it..All we can do is wash this shit away by adding higher forms to the conditioned scene....and educate others.

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    Otto Rapp revealing read about what it could lead to - http://www.agpf.de/Schlothauer-AAO-Muehl.htm........and don't forget, there was a 'retrospective' about Otto Mühl in the Leopold Museum in 2010http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/23/otto-muehl
    

    
    

    Andreas Schlothauer über Otto Muehl und AAO: Die Diktatur der freien Sexualität

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• ...... and to get back to Hermann Nitsch - here is a performance piece that illustrates much of what I said in my facebook tread above!
  
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