A Work of Art that Changed the World

[Antero]

The Illiad.

Ulysses.

[milk]

Most do...for good and bad. Even crap art.

[ubercat]

Most do...for good and bad. Even crap art.

Breakfast at Tiffany's changed the world?

[jurgis rudkus]

The Jungle

Christ, why didn't I, the hero of the story, think of this?

[milk]

Most do...for good and bad. Even crap art.

Breakfast at Tiffany's changed the world?

Yes.

[ubercat]

Yes.

Oh great. I was hoping you would say no.

I'm gunna just take a wild guess, but I think perhaps Breakfast at Tiffany's allowed more total cunts to metastasize into American culture. Again, just a guess.

[Big John]

http://www.faithmouse.com/obama_unicorns.html

[noise&light]

Bunny Yeager's Bettie Page photos.
Touko Laaksonen's Tom of Finland drawings.

[Steve V.]

This album probably spawned an entire generation of Italian children. Bed springs still sing along.

And those Italian children probably became good artists or cooks.

Thanks Frank.

[Jodi S.]

This album probably spawned an entire generation of Italian children. Bed springs still sing along.

And those Italian children probably became good artists or cooks.

Thanks Frank.

One of my very favorite records ever.

[SecondEdition]

That album has a claim at being the first true concept album.

[Steve V.]

That album has a claim at being the first true concept album.

The concept being "Sad Sinatra make you fuck."

[D./Eksvplot]

Castlevania II

[SecondEdition]

That album has a claim at being the first true concept album.

The concept being "Sad Sinatra make you fuck."

Which is a far worthier concept than most.

[Ernest]

The Rape Tunnel

If this didn't scream fake, this could've been the death knell of conceptual art.

[MisterX]

The Rape Tunnel

If this didn't scream fake, this could've been the death knell of conceptual art.

I'm all for conceptual art so long as it's not in an art gallery. Speaking of which, that guy who pretended to starve a dog in Costa Rica had some serious impact, even if it was just making lots of people angry.

[Steve V.]

The Rape Tunnel

If this didn't scream fake, this could've been the death knell of conceptual art.

I'm all for conceptual art so long as it's not in an art gallery. Speaking of which, that guy who pretended to starve a dog in Costa Rica had some serious impact, even if it was just making lots of people angry.

Yeah, both these fucks can get murdered.

[A Fine Chaos]

The Screaming Clown thing at the Art Institute's modern wing. If, by changing the world, you want to include the destruction the cognitive thought, artistic inquiry and reduce the creative act down to a contest of how many people can we annoy with grating monotony. As a future for art, this would certainly change it.

"Hey kids, let's see how many grade school students we can get to turn their back on the arts so that they can have really useful lives as insurance company employees."

Oh, that and the nightmare that is Damien Hurst.

[Earwicker]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Dr Strangelove may have influenced the development of the Mutually Assured Destruction cold war policy. Maybe a bad thing, but maybe prevented nuclear war.

Re Hitler, I recently watched a documentary that for the life of me I can't remember the name of. Heard of it through the doco thread - 'architecture of evil' maybe? Anyway, was viewing the Nazi period and its goals as a grand art project, looked at the art influences on Hitler and his hatred of 'degenerate' art. Was very good. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a work of fiction and that had a pretty big influence.

There are probably plenty of movies and books which assisted in breaking down the general acceptance of bigotry. In the Heat of the Night for example or Victim with Dirk Bogarde.

Generally I'd say art has a cumulative effect. I wouldn't say Picasso or Duchamp, or one piece of their work, changed the world significantly but they influenced others who influenced others who, combined, create a world view within which politics has to operate. Often politics just changes to conceal itself from the new world view's increased sensitivities but there are some exceptions.

There are probably plenty of examples of art directly influencing scientists, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.

[Cranius]

There are probably plenty of examples of art directly influencing scientists, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.

Buckminster-Fuller was certainly influenced by a polyhedral sculpture that he used to see everyday on his way to work. Apparently, it was a geodesic dome made out of car bonnets constructed by some hippy artists.