Back when art embraced the ugly...

Some recent #FB links makes me want to push out a great selection of favourites. These remind me of the millennial sensibilities in the art world. How we seemed to revel in a view of grotesque that seems like teenage angst compared with the realities of today. I doubt such art is created in the same way, I doubt the art world would stomache a preserved corpse, a la Hirst, with as much serious thought and enthusiasm as it did.