Reading through this essay, it feels like Hickey is using cars to talk about the development of art; how it started from an extensive knowledge, inside and out, and how it has now become an intuition mixed with intellect. This car allegory is an interesting approach and I am able to relate to it in some parts. Mainly where he talks about how he was looking for something "fresh" and "new", not so much disconcerting, but something unique or as unique as I could make it.
I sort of got foggy in the areas where he started throwing a bunch of wordy sentences out there with metaphors and similes and alliterations, but what really got my attention were the last couple pages. In these pages Hickey began comparing religious iconography from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with cars and then suddenly used the precious meaning of the Eucharist and the seriousness of these ideologies as secular metaphors for not only the new age of art, but also for today's commercial production. Now, I may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting just what Hickey is getting at in these last few pages, but it did not sit very well with me in the context that it was used for in this discourse.
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