Bernhard Works Series: Masters of the Past
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Those who talk about art history all day long come here every day to fill the visitors' ears with their nonsense about art history. They drive more than a dozen classes of students through the museum's exhibition halls every day, and ruin the lives of these naive children with their endless nonsense. Those who study art history are actually those who destroy art. Art historians talk about art until they die. Art is talked to death by art historians. --"Masters of the Past" Music critic Reger would go to the Kunsthistorisches Museum every other day and sit in front of the same portrait of Tintoretto for more than thirty years, until one day his wife passed away. Six months later, he appeared in front of the portrait again and invited his old friend Atzbacher to meet him at the museum the next day. Through Atzbacher's eyes, we get to know Reger: the death of his wife, his thoughts about suicide, his comments about the masters, and, finally, the purpose of the meeting. At once pessimistic and elated, both hateful and hilarious, The Masters is a satirical comedy about culture, genius, nation, class, artistic merit and human pretension.
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