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Article: MODERN ART: THE CENTRAL FACTS FROM THE COURSES YOU ALWAYS MEANT TO TAKE, IN 25 LECTURESA
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1996
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What we recognise as modern art has one outstanding
characteristic: it is not mimetic. That is, it does not seek to
create an illusionistic representation of the visible world but
rather to establish its own reality as an independent object - its
autonomy, in the jargon. With this goes a corresponding emphasis on
the purely formal or aesthetic aspect of the work - its character
as an autonomous structure of line, form, colour, texture. In
modern art, everyday reality may be referred to, or evoked, in ways
ranging from more or less distorted or stylised representations to
the direct incorporation in the work of "real" objects or
materials. Or it may be excluded altogether in favour of some ...
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