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The arrant-gard artistic movement of the late-to-moribund Hipster Era was an attempt to answer the defects of abstractionist and post-modernist art. It not so much challenged prevailing thought as avoided statements in favor of limericks. In effect, it held up a mirror to both reality and art, but held the mirror backwards so that the observer could only see the chipped grey paint and dust on the back. The arrant-gard might have responded to Andy Warhol's soup cans by moving to Romania and distributing polystyrene dildos.

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rdfs:label	Arrant-gard
rdfs:comment	The arrant-gard artistic movement of the late-to-moribund Hipster Era was an attempt to answer the defects of abstractionist and post-modernist art. It not so much challenged prevailing thought as avoided statements in favor of limericks. In effect, it held up a mirror to both reality and art, but held the mirror backwards so that the observer could only see the chipped grey paint and dust on the back. The arrant-gard might have responded to Andy Warhol's soup cans by moving to Romania and distributing polystyrene dildos.
dcterms:subject	Art Classical Music (Western)
abstract	The arrant-gard artistic movement of the late-to-moribund Hipster Era was an attempt to answer the defects of abstractionist and post-modernist art. It not so much challenged prevailing thought as avoided statements in favor of limericks. In effect, it held up a mirror to both reality and art, but held the mirror backwards so that the observer could only see the chipped grey paint and dust on the back. If post-modern art adopted a stance of ironic detatchment, then arrant-gard art stood as the statement of those who noticed that post-modern detatchment was actually a manifesto of deep involvement which only pretended to be detached. Arrant-gard art therefore only pretended to parody the surface irony -- the pretense -- of post-modernism while simultaneously both commenting on and avoiding "meaning" and "art-for-art's-sake" alike, opting instead for feigned pretense. The arrant-gard might have responded to Andy Warhol's soup cans by moving to Romania and distributing polystyrene dildos. They might have commented on John Cage's 4'33" by eating some plywood and going to a hospital. They might have answered the absurdist statement of Albee's The Zoo Story by sleeping in the afternoon. The connections? There are none...or are there? That is precisely the comment the arrant-gard intended.

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