{"id":1204,"date":"2014-08-25T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2014-09-23T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:38:20","slug":"edgy-schmedgy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Edgy, Schmedgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1264\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/skull-shirt-small.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1264\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1264\" src=\"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/skull-shirt-small.jpg\" alt=\"Just another skull shirt\/Peter Bihr\/flickr\" width=\"197\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just another skull shirt\/Peter Bihr\/flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you a bit fed up with edginess by now? I know I am. In fact, what\u2019s wrong with a bit of middliness, or whatever the opposite of edginess is?<br \/>\nNowhere is edginess so manifest than in the modern art world. All the biggest names you can name are edgy: Damien Hirst, Gilbert and George, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin. And what does their edginess largely consist of? Bodily fluids, religious imagery, divers manifestations of sexuality, violence . . . Is it new, is it brash, is it iconoclastic? No, it\u2019s been going since at least 1991 (or since 1917, if you want to go back to Marcel Duchamps\u2019 urinal). Is it possible to maintain one\u2019s shock at the volume of urine, faeces, menstrual blood, etc., flowing past us for the last 20 years? I think not. So a truly startling, mouldbreaking work of art that challenged contemporary issues would probably need to be some contorted impasto of lace doilies and tubigrip in a mastic of Shake\u2019n\u2019Vac on stills of the Eurovision Song Contest (I can see it now).<br \/>\nNot that I\u2019m arguing for wider acceptance among the art world elite of the likes of schlockmeister Thomas Kincade (who seems to have applied edginess to life rather than art, once relieving himself on a Winnie the Pooh \u2013 here come those turds again \u2013 figure in the foyer of a Disneyland hotel: eat your hearts out, G and G). It\u2019s just that, philosophically and perhaps geometrically, you can\u2019t really claim to be edgy if everyone else is on the edge with you: the few remaining in the middle become the new edge.<br \/>\nSo here is your cut-out-and-keep guide to the new edginess:<\/p>\n<p><strong>No longer edgy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The new edgy<\/strong><br \/>\nSkulls on everything \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A nice paisley print<br \/>\nSex on the Beach \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Yakult<br \/>\nKiller heels\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peruvian slipper socks<br \/>\nSpiky bedheads \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A Marcel wave<br \/>\nFrankie Boyle\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Katie Boyle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a bit fed up with edginess by now? I know I am. In fact, what\u2019s wrong with a bit of middliness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damesnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}