Fountain depicts a urinal placed onto its side. The point of which was a critique of the standard of beauty in art. Fountain lays a claim that any and all art can be beautiful as beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The idea of relativism of art is a Postmodernist ideal that stems from the Postmodernist belief of rejecting the grand narrative. In order to reject the grand narrative, relativism was adopted by Postmodernists, to embrace subjectivity and question objectivity. The relativistic view of beauty creates a slippery slope for ideal of beauty and creates a paradoxical scenario (Potash). When anything and everything becomes beautiful, nothing is beautiful anymore. The idea of beauty is destroyed when the standard begins to disappear (Scruton). Relativism of beauty, a Postmodernist practice, causes the destruction of beauty. Just as the other Postmodernist works characterize the destruction of the period.
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