Yesterday I took in the Art Deco exhibit at the Palace of the Legion of Honor. The exhibit showed Art Deco "influences", which included a whole bunch of stuff. There was some really fantastic stuff and some stuff that was like, huh? that's Art Deco? It seemed to me that Art Deco was an eclectic mix of all kinds of things that happened to be popular at the time. The term Art Deco was not used contemporarily. It's not what the style was called when it was new. Which lead me to a mental masturbation about what the current style will be categorized as. Cultural reflection becomes history. Just as self reflection becomes history. Could you as an individual leave your personal history behind? Or even become detached from it, but not defined by it? Could a culture do this?
That typed, I did enjoy the exhibit. More about art biddies later....
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