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The Wall is not about Art.

Artists in Berlin, disgusted that the graffiti on the Berlin Wall right after the fall of the GDR was being celebrated for its own sake in a bourgeois, quasi-spiritual manner, scrawled this and a long yellow line across on the Wall. (According to Bridget Fowler in Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory, p. 178)

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