he Nazis had so-called "brownhouses," and they would pull in Jews or Communists
or people who were homosexuals and beat them to death. There was a whole litany
of people being forced to watch somebody being killed or raped. Why these things
happen and why people do these things, I don’t know, but I think they tap into
a kind of cultural madness. If this society continues to the next two thousand
years, people will be looking at the twentieth century and saying, "What did artists
do about the strange goings-on?"
-From
gallery guide for Arnot Art Museum, 1992 |