In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Topic

Value of life Hypothetical situations Relative value Cats Art

Speaker

Alberto Giacometti

Genre

Biography

Language

Unclear

Time

20th century

Occupation

Sculptor Artist

From

Switzerland Europe

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Citation

Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Topic
Modern art Power of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
Essay Magazine
Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.