Titanic Legacy and Famous Modern Art Accidents

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The Modern Meaning of the Titanic

June 2012

The lesson to learn: False. "The great lesson of the disaster is that no matter how smart we think we are, how skilled and how technologically advanced, we remain at the mercy of events beyond our control."
Before the Titanic sank: True. "For 100 years the Western world had been at peace, technology had steadily improved and the benefits of peace and industry seemed to be filtering satisfactorily through society."
The Great War and tragedy: False. "Two years later came the Great War, and the tragedy of Versailles, and the rise of Hitler, and the splitting of the atom, and so on."

When the Titanic sank, 1,500 people died and the world changed drastically.
In 1955, Walter Lord stated that people would not be so confident anymore.
This tragedy reminds us that technology is defective and we cannot be sure of its final results.

Kippenberger's sculpture: False. "The sculpture by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, widely regarded as one of the most talented artists of his generation until his death in 1997, had been on loan to the Ostwall Museum in Dortmund."
The cleaner's perspective: True. "He thought it was art: the cleaner saw it as a challenge, and set about making the bucket look like new and removed the patina from the four walls of the bucket."
The spokeswoman's statement: False. "Cleaning crews had been told to keep 20cm away from artworks, but it was unclear if the woman had received the memo."

Someone told the cleaning crews that they had to keep 20 cm away from artworks.
Joseph Beuys' work was worth around 400,000€.
In 2004, a cleaner didn't realize that a plastic bag with discarded paper and cardboard was an artwork.

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