CONCEPT
This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:
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Ignoring the artists’ claims for the semantic significance of their formal experiments, Clement Greenberg cast them as seeking autonomous, self-contained states earned by following the Kantian imperative to concentrate on the properties distinctive to the medium.
Charles Altieri, “Modernism and Postmodernism,” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993), 792-796.
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