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POSH LUST

¨In our voracious consumer society an act of purchase is not a means to an end: it is the end itself, and the higher the price, the more justified the purchase.¨ .....
       ¨Many works of art by some of the recently top-billed art stars combine a fetish for finish with a deadpan dumbness and lack of originality for which there is no expression in English, but the untranslatable Russian word пошлость (pronounced ¨poshlost¨) seems apt.   Vladimir Nabokov defined it (and punned it ¨posh lust¨) as ¨not only the obviously trashy but also the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive. (...)
            
                                                                                                                      Michael Findlay, The Value of Art
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  • MAIA HORTA
  • WORKS
    • PLAYERS
    • WE DON`T NEED ANOTHER HERO
    • LIFE IS A BEACH
    • SELF-HELP
    • INSTAPAINTINGS
    • GOING BANANAS
    • POSH LUST
    • ART LOVERS (MoMM)
    • MÁScaras
    • DESCARADAS
    • Other Projects >
      • I JUG U
      • MoMM
      • VIDEOS
      • MÁScaras
      • Works on paper
      • BALOIÇARTE
      • REPRODUZIERBARKEIT
      • HACKFRESSE
      • Publications
    • MOUCHETTE
    • SEVENTY FOUR
    • PAREDES
    • PAUSAS
  • Biography
    • Upcoming
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  • Studio