{"id":1437,"date":"2023-01-26T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:22:05","slug":"what-are-you-looking-at-the-surprising-shocking-and-sometimes-strange-story-of-150-years-of-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/what-are-you-looking-at-the-surprising-shocking-and-sometimes-strange-story-of-150-years-of-modern-art\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAn artist\u2019s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure\u2014designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make sense or comment on it through the presentation of ideas that had no functional purpose other than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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