Radical political thought and radical art seemed to be in step with each other as never before, or since.
However, the point of radical art and culture is to create a political poetic of the self and the group.
Its radical art and avant-garde mentality sought to end the alienation of painting from society.
Because collecting this really radical art required having a brain as much as an eye.
It has become the paradigm, but also the caricature of radical art.
That Saatchi should embrace both Conservative politics and radical art might sound like a contradiction.
Fried argues that this divided relationship lies at the heart of Caravaggio's most radical art.
Like so much of the radical art that emerged in that decade, this collection insists upon its distance from the past.
But it's the nature of the way media and society deal with radical or new art; they devour their newborns.
Crawford was involved in the radical art and literary movements of Brisbane's 1940s.