ARTH 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jackson Pollock, Edward Said, Avant-Garde
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Imitation of imitating: abstraxtion, non-objective, fleeting/ ephemeral of city life, challenging conventions, the viewer can only look at it, not be a part of it (self criticality aware that it is a painting and that it"s artificial. Ideas are better than what they actually create one must know history. Imitation of culture: naturalism, ex: snowglobe by rockwell (nostalgia) just for the money, for the masses greenberg article does not like this. Edward said: literary critic + theorist lived in ny, studied anthology, orientalism: east of europe was the orient, orient = (cid:498)east(cid:499) / asia , middle east, occident = (cid:498)west(cid:499) / europe.
