Nihilism, Youth, and Fashion

[ProfMonnitoff]

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Servo, I'd be interested to see what came out of this.

[Enaml]

Wow. I (obviously) never saw this. Looks fascinating in comparison to friends' AP Art finals- mostly complete jokes.

[genevieveryoko]

2. Does not accepting "the system" come from it being so terrible, or does it result from a teenager's narcissism? You might want to look at Christopher Lasch's book The Culture of Narcissism - it is a very different perspective. Basically, he says that we have become just a bunch of adult babies who cannot suck it up and keep plowing. Therefore, things such as organized political resistance, healthy love relationships, and parent/child relationships are disintegrating.

a bit unnecessary for me to say this, but I like this...perhaps I'll read this book.

[zamb]

a bit unnecessary for me to say this, but I like this...perhaps I'll read this book.

just ordered it from amazon.............

[Servo2000]

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Servo, I'd be interested to see what came out of this.

Well, an initial idea for AP art portfolio amongst other things.

Pulled from here there was a small collection I designed / 'illustrated' onto some large scale figure drawings along with some text-based pieces and some digital drawings / collages / etc... not great stuff but it's what I was doing at the time. I ended up submitting a collection primarily of drawings / digital pieces focused on drawing with physical media and then re-drawing it digitally and then back / forth etc... based on arguing against bias for and against 'digital drawing' based on the fundamental nature of computers ( bumps of magnetism / electricity on harddrives record the 'drawing' and therefore mark making remains present even in its digital nature). Anyway.

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hey, what's that picture from The Fourth Sex (artist)? Looks maybe like Mike Kelley but I could be Way off. and if you know the name of it. thanks.

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well my GOSH i didn't realize this was started in 2007. geez. anyway, my last question still stands. i just posted a thing in randomness - nihilism stuff.
sort of quick-read through posts on this thread.
i have to agree that this is/was a broad topic.
when you're talking about this i do believe you are talking about something very serious and some people just won't even get it.
it is pretty easy to say that, say - taking pictures of pornorgraphy and parties is different than taking pictures of butterflies, if you are an artist let's say. that the pictures of parties show a nihilistic view on youth, etc. but does it really? you could go that route, questioning what is and what isn't but we really don't know. or do we? i think we do.
i think the stereotypes of so called nihilistic culture aren't stereotypes but real and true. some of them anyway.
not sure about the whole fashion thing but i was wondering myself if dada art or dada in general is nihilistic. anyway.

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not sure about the whole fashion thing but i was wondering myself if dada art or dada in general is nihilistic. anyway.

I don't know enough about philosophy or art to comment precisely, but dada is certainly something i aspire to