The Case for Modern Art as a Distinct Form of Knowledge
The foundations for a newly conceived institution of art developed in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, although observers in other countries quickly absorbed and reinterpreted new ideas and new practices that took root first in Paris. After the innovations of painter Gustave...
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Published in | The Modern Moves West p. 16 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
28.05.2012
University of Pennsylvania Press |
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Summary: | The foundations for a newly conceived institution of art developed in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, although observers in other countries quickly absorbed and reinterpreted new ideas and new practices that took root first in Paris. After the innovations of painter Gustave Courbet and poet Charles Baudelaire, overlapping and disparate modern movements increasingly focused on how language, visual images, sound constructions could communicate anything at all—a development that released art from the responsibility of presenting cohesive social myths and shifted creative focus to a more elusive effort of analyzing the psychological and social factors shaping |
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ISBN: | 0812222210 9780812222210 |