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The conceptual cymbal crash, punning cocks with screw, was defeatist humor mocking not just the male tool but deflating the hard language of conceptual art: telling the joke over and over again on larger and larger sheets of paper, the high rhetoric of big egos reduced to a bad joke - Cue: Beyonce "
♪♫ Cause he's got a big 'ego.'
♪♫" Bernstein: "
it wasn’t funny."
See too:
Judith Bernstein at Mary Boone