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POSTMODERN ARTISTS AND ANIMALS THAT PAINT
If you saw a chimpanzee-painted picture, you probably wouldn’t pay $5 for it—unless you knew that a chimp painted the picture. In that case, you might pay lots of money for it. The “art” of Congo the chimpanzee (1954 - 1964) has sold for tens of thousands of dollars.
Similarly, four-year-old Marla Olmstead’s postmodern paintings (“abstract art”), indistinguishable from postmodern paintings in New York’s finest galleries of indistinguishable postmodern paintings, have sold for thousands of dollars each.
Postmodern artists get much attention in the media ... but what about postmodern socio-political critics and cultural analysts? Doesn’t their gibberish deserve more attention, too? And what about postmodern scientists?
A real scientist decided to weigh in.