Stewart HomeArt is sanctioned pornography
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If the artist is the creator, then art is sanctioned pornography. As beautiful as it can be, art can be just as wicked as pornography. When this was written, the art world was still trying to come to terms with this idea.
Source: The Art Strike Papers And Neoist Manifestos: The Years Without Art, 19901993
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