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Understanding Postmodernism, #37.

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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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Painting became the expressive use of color, line, and volume as it addressed the demands of bringing working space to the flatness of the canvas.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #36

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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.

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Lauras 19, 29.

DIARY

– AUGUST – is Cataract Awareness month.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Antonio Banderas for real (thanks for nothing, Wikipedia).

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
.:: beedogs ::.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Wow, not one QotD response in two days.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #35.

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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Second, the versions of modernism reconstructed after World War II in both painting and literature were as tepid as surrealism was radical.

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Understanding Postmodernism, #34.

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Hey! Look what I found!

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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And modernism’s insistence on refined, concentrated intelligence seems better suited for repressing poetic logic than for making it a social force.

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Lauras 17, 29.

DIARY

– AUGUST – is National Inventors’ Month.
– TONIGHT – is Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbors’ Porch Night.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Antonio Banderas, and Amber, and the Wolf Baron.

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.”

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