Contempt for the New: A Thought-Provoking Exhibition and Lecture Series at the Brooks

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912 – 1956)Number 9, 1951
Silk screen 19/25
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Public conscience was indignant. This was awful, stupid, dirty; this painting had no common sense. 
–F. O’Squarre, “Les Impressionnistes,” Courrier de France (1877)
This so-called piece of art is a deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity.
–Senator Alphonse D’Amato regarding Andres Serrano (1989)
Though these two critics [...]