British artist buries MiG-21 fighter jet to symbolize the end of an era

[Thelurker1234]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52808816]Can you enlighten us to the meaning of this miracle toilet?

[editline]22nd October 2017[/editline]

Okay I looked it up (My google results now contain "postmodernist toilet", thank you very much.). It seems like the only meaning of it is to be pretentious, which doesn't really help the case of it not being ~meaning~. This philosopher guy seems to sum up the "meaning" pretty well.

That sounds exactly like the sort of pretentious ~~~meaning~~~ that an undergrad art student would assign to their crap. Or piss, in this case.[/QUOTE]
"Stephen Hicks"

I mean you may as well have just linked a Stefan Molyneux video.

Also this isn't even a postmodern work of art anyways. It's Dada, which actually does fit his description as Dada is intentionally meant to contradict and fuck with conventional definitions of art.

[IlluminatiRex]

Dadaism is my favorite art movement because of it’s relationship to WWI, such a great movement. It was a reaction to the crumbling of the old order, old Europe. The war changed everything.

[Xion21]

[QUOTE=Trekintosh;52808816]Can you enlighten us to the meaning of this miracle toilet?

[editline]22nd October 2017[/editline]

Okay I looked it up (My google results now contain "postmodernist toilet", thank you very much.). It seems like the only meaning of it is to be pretentious, which doesn't really help the case of it not being ~meaning~. This philosopher guy seems to sum up the "meaning" pretty well.

That sounds exactly like the sort of pretentious ~~~meaning~~~ that an undergrad art student would assign to their crap. Or piss, in this case.[/QUOTE]

This piece always kinda fascinated me. I'd argue it's actually pretty important.

You could make an argument that Dadaism eventually helped lead to a good chunk of the humor style we have today. The "try to be deliberately bad but still entertaining, make subtle mistakes that people may notice, make the viewer uncomfortable in a non-confrontational way" kind of absurdist humor. Like Too Many Cooks, Tim and Eric and all that style of things.

[DOG-GY]

[QUOTE=Xion21;52809694]This piece always kinda fascinated me. I'd argue it's actually pretty important.

You could make an argument that Dadaism eventually helped lead to a good chunk of the humor style we have today. The "try to be deliberately bad but still entertaining, make subtle mistakes that people may notice, make the viewer uncomfortable in a non-confrontational way" kind of absurdist humor. Like Too Many Cooks, Tim and Eric and all that style of things.[/QUOTE]
Really you can trace a lot of absurdist humor much further back, even to Diogenes and before.