Good taste
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- Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing. [Good] taste is the enemy of creativity. - Pablo Picasso [Source: Strength to Love, 1963.]
- The best salami for everyone! -- Partista Communista Italiana
- The concepts of "good taste" are intricately woven into society's control process and class structure. Aesthetics are not an objective body of laws suspended above us like Plato's supreme "Ideas"; they are rooted in the fundamental mechanics of how to control the population and maintain the status quo.
- Our sophisticated, "democratic" Western civilization regulates the population's access to information, as well as its innermost attitudes, through media--particularly film and video. The power to literally create desire, fashion, consumer trends, opinions, aspirations and even one's very identity is expressed through film and video. This force--power through persuasion--reaches deep into the backbrain, rendering more brutal, physical control tactics obsolete. Since the '60s, film has ceased being a popular creative medium. --Vale and Juno, 1985 in Incredibly Strange Films (1986) - V. Vale , Andrea Juno
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Memphis Design Group
Ettore Sottsass conceived Memphis, an eighties phenomena in the field of furniture and object design. Memphis explored a visual language outside of the limiting canons of "good taste," blurring the boundaries between "high" or popular culture and mass-produced "ordinary" consumer goods.
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See also
- Conspiracy of Good Taste (1993) - Stefan Szczelkun
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