Bravo, Jonathan Jones!

You know, I worried that I'd, perhaps, gone a Bit Too Far with my recent cri de coeur rant, point being that Art's got a lot of nerve expecting normal humans (like me) to care about/fund it, when it goes out of its way to use such incomprehensible, intimidating language. So I was happy (and somewhat relieved) to see a concurring opinion. Jonathan Jones' review of the newly published Art Since 1900 had me laughing out loud, despite the seriousness of the underlying issue. My favorite passage:

"... this book is the final ludicrous monument to an intellectual corruption that has filled contemporary museums and the culture they sustain with a hollow and boring, impersonal chatter. Art has been lost in a labyrinth of theory. If this sounds anti-intellectual, let me clarify. There is no good work of art that cannot be described in intelligible English, however long it might take, however much patience is required. ..."

Kudos, Jonathan. Well put. It will be my bourgeois pleasure to buy you a bourgeois pint the very next time we're in the same vicinity.