[WikiEN-l] Verifiability equating to notability

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 4 May 2006 at 18:15, "Anthony DiPierro" <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:

> I certainly don't know modern art when I see it.  In fact, I think
> there is a lot of disagreement over what modern art is.

I have a vague, stereotypical, and probably decades out-of-date 
impression of what "modern art" is, but I have no clue whether it has 
anything in common with what the art world actually uses the term to 
refer to, if they actually still use the term at all.

I generally think that giving labels like "modern" to things is a bad 
idea, since such a label is intrinsically relative.  If some 
particular type of art was labeled "modern art" in the 1950s, should 
it still carry that label 50 years later when it's not quite so 
modern?  Is the sort of art the avant-garde is making now 
"postmodern"?  What comes *after* postmodern to reflect the 
generation after *that*?  Post-postmodern?  And then there's "retro", 
reflecting art, culture, and design that intentionally goes back to 
an earlier era... but you've got a lot of earlier eras to choose 
from, so that doesn't really designate a particular one.

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