Bum bags had already been spotted on the waists
of super-cool Tumblr kids who love nostalgia and irony in equal
parts, but they soon began making their way into the
mainstream, as marches and protests started becoming an essential
part of everyday life.
Running counter to this first
mainstream are the works
of Duchamp, John Cage, and Picasso: expressing beauty transformed, ugliness, startling juxtaposition
of images, primitive power, the subconscious
of Freud, art as idea, art as found object, art as
part of everyday life, non-art transmuted into art, and often an emphasis on social and political issues.