Episode 26: C.M. Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker (1903)
“Where there is an avant garde, we also find a rear garde.”
Images Referenced:
Music Used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "Rose Ornamental," "Flattered," "Arizona Moon," "Laser Focus," "Alchemical," "Two in the Back," "Maisie Dreamer," "Gullwing Sailor," "Maldoc"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees"
Links:
This American Life - "Numbers" (Komar and Melamid's Most and Least Wanted paintings...and songs.)
Full text: Clement Greenberg's "Avant Garde and Kitsch"
Sponsors:
Tamar Avishai