Now, if I assert that the last revolutionary avant-garde that defied its time took place in the sixties (beuys, Baselitz, Serra, Merz, and many others), then that is not only because they are still the most important contemporary artists today ... but because there are still no equivalents to their revolutionary gestures and works ... and they are still not outdated. (H.S. 130-132)

Perhaps they were not outdated, but with their wanting to move history forward by revolutionary gestures and works, they had become strangers to a generation that wanted to liberate itself from the future by liberating itself from the past and, most immediately, laid libidinous claim to the present. (H-J.M., 132)