Equivalents I-VIII, 1966
I think it's interesting that he wanted to created a communistic aesthetic, but instead had the public revolt against him. Why is this? Perhaps it's the apparent lack of 'skill' involved, as well as the lack of Speciality. Although the goal of many modern artists, including Andre, was a democratization of art and the elevating of the everyday to a position of reconsideration: the world is amazing and beautiful.
But people cannot move beyond the fact that it is 'merely a pile of bricks'. Nevermind the sensitization of gravity (pg 155 of our text), or the existential connotations. Minimal art, unless somehow 'pretty', would never strike a chord with the public. Such a shame.
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