Just as modern philosophy is dominated by the attempt to destroy the conceptual
level of man’s consciousness and even the perceptual level, reducing man’s
awareness to mere sensations—so modern art and literature are dominated by the
attempt to disintegrate man’s consciousness and reduce it to mere sensations,
to the “enjoyment” of meaningless colors, noises and moods.
The art of any given period or culture is a faithful mirror of that culture’s
philosophy. If you see obscene, dismembered monstrosities leering at you from
today’s esthetic mirrors—the aborted creations of mediocrity, irrationality
and panic—you are seeing the embodied, concretized reality of the
philosophical premises that dominate today’s culture. Only in this sense can
those manifestations be called “art”—not by the intention or accomplishment of
their perpetrators.