COMP 421 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Sadomasochism, Marek Edelman, Tuple
12 Oct 2018
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Telling pictures identify discontinuity as well as some continuities. There is indeed some continuity between traditional and contemporary arts. (e. g. Dutton sees the art object as an act of performance, baxandall sees the art object as a solution to a problem in a situation). All of which seems to support the kind of claims that wolfe made. Wolfe"s claim that modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text. (wolfe 1976: 6. A second purported discontinuity between traditional and late modern art, resides in what lucy. Lippard (1973) termed the dematerialization of the art object. : wolfe"s visual reward assumption that traditional, 1/ there is an art object. 2/ an object that no one would bother time to look at require explanatory narrative (cf. three examples) Davies" claim: these two claims are closely related.
