Ick and Oh Yeah

Now this is the kind of critical rhetoric that makes sense to me:

“And it’s both the ‘Ick’ reaction and the ‘Oh, yeah’ reaction that gives it its staying power.”

Courtesy of In Sunny Southern California, a Sculpture Finds Its Place in the Shadows. Written by Edward Wyatt, New York Times.

The quote from: Carol S. Eliel, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art,