"The radical character, the "violence" of this reconstruction in contemporary art seems to indicate that it does not rebel against one style or another but against 'style' itself, against the art-form of art, against the traditional 'meaning' of art. [...] And yet, this entire de-formation is Form: anti-art has remained art, supplied, purchased, and contemplated as art. [...] Transforming the intent of art is self-defeating - a self-defeat built into the very structure of art."
"The very Form of art contradicts the effort to do away with the segregation of art to a 'second reality,' to translate the truth of the productive imagination into the first reality."
Herbert Marcuse, “The New Sensibility” An Essay on Liberation (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971), pp. 40-42.
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