POSTMODERN SYSTEMATICS
by Charlie Finch
If, as Donald Kuspit currently maintains in
Artnet Magazine [see
"A Critical History of 20th-century Art," Dec. 27, 2005], modernism is a decaying substitute for religion in which objects, in the absence of the godhead, are simultaneously defenestrated and reified, what are the systematics, the praxis of worship, in the pseudoreligion of contemporary art?
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