shock-your-grandmother

Updated: May 6, 2025

It is no longer a matter of misunderstanding and being misunderstood by the public; it is a matter of deliberately flouting and outraging the public of assuming incomprehensibility and antagonism to popular feeling as signs of greatness. And so is founded what Frederic Harrison has called the "shock-your-grandmother school."

Kenyon Cox - Artist and Public: And Other Essays On Art Subjects