A Lifetime Affair with Art, the Dada Movement, and Surrealism
the reality is...there is no reality

Suicide 

Great Depression Suicides

Starvation and the Death of the Farmer

The Great Depression Starving

World War Two

WW2
Cold War/ Conceptual Sigmar Polke
Evolution of European and American art movements with their roots in Dadaism and/or Surrealism
US puritanism, prudish and government control, religious REICH that continues to this day
Religion and government destroy art 
1970's us
vietnam war era
Richard's decision to become an artist as a result 
More about Sigmar Polke's influence
Nudity in the usa
I found Jesus, the resurgence of religious oppression and bigotry towards others and censorship and oppression
Even in a country as prgressive as the us pretends to be, women are still kept in a box
"If you think outside the box, you are once again nothing for not following the trends.  It's a lonely world in my head." ~Zxorb
Dada itself feels nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing
 It is like your hopes, nothing 
Like your heaven, nothing 
Like your idols, nothing 
Like your politicians, nothing 
Like your heroes, nothing 
Like your artists, nothing 
Like your religions, nothing.
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