Unswept House

[sdi]

Lest you think conceptualist art is a unique plague upon modernity, I hereby present to you a Roman copy of Sosus of Pergamon's renowned masterpiece, ἀσάρωτος οἶκος "Unswept House:"

It is, quite literally, garbage.

Sometimes I wonder if the reason we have so little of interest recorded between, say, 200 BC and AD 100 is because it corresponds to our civilization after AD 1900 or so: as much was made as ever, but all of it was trash.