November 4, 2009

This is from "My Name Is Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok: I traveled to Manhattan galleries and saw the beginning of a mocking art which I disliked. Jacob Kahn called it nihilism. He despised it. He regarded it as an undisciplined destruction of aesthetic values. Duchamp was to blame for this, he said bitterly. Evidently Chaim Potok was NOT a fan of Duchamp. To be honest, neither am I.