VPHB68H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Industrial Engineering, Brik, Stenberg Brothers
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Thomas crow- modernism & mass culture in the visual arts. Avante-gardes have discovered, renew, or reinvented themselves by using non-artistic forms of expressivity & display. The new york school included jasper johns, robert rauschenberg, claes oldenburg, & andy warhol. 1876- stephane mallarme: he said that parisian paintings started off lower, & they were captivating & repulsive at the same time & that they were only temporary & would be replaced. In the 1860s, artworks depicting drinkers, picnics, & whores were abandoned and replaced with more high class art. Modernism was argued to have saved paintings from the cheap spectacle & common amusement of other markets. The same argument was made by paul signac even though they had political differences. He also stated that these works were temporary & that the ones after them were important & permanent. He stated that neo-impressionists drew attention to class struggles by depicting industrial work as a spectacle.
