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and autonomy, 13, 17–18
and bureaucracy, 15
commercialism of, 20–21
and conceptualism, 17
and public funding, 13–16, 19
and the state, 13–14, 17
and surprise, 4
modernism, 110–11
left-wing hijacking of, 130
orthodoxy of, 12
as revolutionary, 26–27
self–criticism in, 111
and the state, 21
and totalitarianism, 25–27
Modern Language Association (MLA),
172
modern literature, difficulty of, 161–62
modern novel, 60
Moe, Ole Henrik, 9–10
Mona Lisa, 215n19
Mondrian, Piet, 42, 43, 204n15
The Monist(journal), 38, 42
Monroe, Marilyn, 125
Moses, Michael Valdez, 5–6
Moss, Kate, 125
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 80, 81,
101, 114
Munch, Edvard, 10, 196n11, 198n42
Murray, Charles, 114, 118
Museum of Modern Art, 5, 16, 49, 177,
221n28, 222n36, 228n1
music,
exhaustion of combinations of sounds,
210n10
formal qualities of, 121
mimetic qualities of, 204n21
musical avant-garde, theories of, 97,
212n10
Mussolini, Benito, 27, 198n41
mystery-mysticism distinction, 191National Art Education Association
(NAEA), 182–83, 225n52
National Arts Journalism Program
(NAJP), 175
National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA), 178, 222n39, 222n40,222–23n42[a], 223n42[d],
223n42[e]
bias of, 178–180, 223n42[c],
224n43[a], 224n43[b], 224n43[c]
National Medal of Arts recipients,
224–25n44
native aesthetics, 110, 114–15
fragility of, 114
“natural classicism,” 136
nature, bias in, to symmetry, 150
Nefertiti, 111
Neo-Platonism, 205–06n12
Nerdrum, Odd, 200n1
Abandoned, 22
The Admission, 23
Amputation, 25
as anarchist, 22, 197n31
Armed Woman, 31
The Arrest, 10, 23
The Black Cloud, 34
Boy with Twig, 30
The Brick, 7
Breast-feeding Fog, 33
Buried Alive, 33
The Cloud, 34
on commercial art, 19
conflict with Norwegian authorities,
195n
cyclical view of, 34
Dancer with Snake, 35
Darwinian element in, 198n46
Dawn, 29
Dying Couple, 33
as elemental, 33
Five Namegivers, 29
Five Persons around a Waterhole, 5,
30
in galleries, 7
on Hollywood, 19
and the internet, 8
Iron Law, 31–32
on Kant, 13, 17–18, 197n25
King of Kitsch, 7
Liberation, 22
The Lifesaver, 33
Man with a Horse’s Head, 30
Man with Catfish, 30
Man with Seed Corn, 29