Recently I was sent a piece of 'abstract art' by an associate. No explanation came with it, just the art as if it would speak to me and that would suffice.
What does he who sent it get out of it? Kudos? Is he hiding out in obscurity. Does he relish the cachet of feeling he is an afficiando.
In other words, he just knows and eh you? don't.
All of which got me interested in abstract art and the collapse of the Gold Standard and the crisis of realism in the
novel and in painting, which just happened to coincide with the end of gold money?
As argued by F A Hayek, the birth of “abstract” art coincided with
the shocking invention of inconvertible (not backed by gold) monetary signs, now in general use?
So like the dollar in your pocket, abstract art is a floating signifier.
That means, essentially, not backed by anything.
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