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 inThe Modern Moves West p. 16
Main Author Smith, Richard Cándida
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 28.05.2012
University of Pennsylvania Press
Subjects
Art education
Art genres and movements
Art history
Art periods
Arts
Arts organizations
Arts participation
Behavioral sciences
Cognitive psychology
Emotion
Emotional distress
Emotional harmony
Emotional states
History of the Americas
Impressionism
Language
Lexicology
Linguistics
Modern art
Modernist art
Pain perception
Perception
Psychology
Visual arts
Words
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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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