Pandoras Box: Have Postmodern Artists Gone too Far?

"When Pandora opened the box a plague dispersed and doomed humanity to suffer ruin, insanity, and despair. She hastily closed the box to stop the plague but, pathetically, only Hope remained inside." For centuries art has, at its best, evoked catharsis from its audience, and in so doing exalted the senses, the intellects, and the passions of those who experience it. Art has been a vehicle that has called upon the highest sentiments of the …

…of the Twin Towers is the crowning glory of postmodern art" (www. http://www.freeradical.co.nz/solo/newberry_terrorism.html). Can we hail the alleged perpetrators of this inhumane crime as the greatest postmodern artists since Marcel Duchamp? If so, we too, should hail Pandora who, despite urgings to keep the jar sealed, unleashed a terror on the world that did more harm than good. YOU HAVE TO EDIT IT BEFORE TURNING IT IN