With its U.F.O.'s, suicidal clowns, smiling genitals and other shocking, humorous or bleakly sentimental imagery, "bad art" — or "vernacular painting" and "found art" in polite circles — has achieved the status of a genre, a tiny but devoted corner of the art world.
The project helped inspire varied uses of appropriated imagery in art.
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The fault line running through all this involves the question of the "proper" use of sexual imagery in art.
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The average person liked banal imagery, but art, "which can be a horrible discriminator," had made people ashamed of their tastes.
"We've been seeing more and more animal imagery in art," said Mr. Klein, recalling his background research for the show, which he began developing a few years ago.
Ms. Freedman, who created a body of work in the 1990's based on famous imagery from art history, said Duchamp was one of her heroes.
Sadder still, religion had been one of the major targets of Soviet repression, especially public demonstrations of belief, or religious imagery in art or literature.
