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Diagnosing the end of Romanticism and the beginning of Modernism: "The glorious unity that [the Romantics] experienced btw imagination and sight, intellectualism and love, the self and family was destroyed by unrelenting disease and death. In its place arose a culturewide self-protection in form, abstraction, and misogyny."
— Aug 01, 2017 03:48AM
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Jeffrey Brannen
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I've stumbled across why Kim Kardashian is a celebrity. "Pop Art's glorification of the celebrity created an equivalent of the 19th c's 'universal prostitution.' Everyone will be famous for 15 min. ... Whereas the prostitute sells her body, the celebrity sells her image to an equally undifferentiated audience, but outdoes her 19th c. counterpart by Garvin promiscuous self-exposure."
— Jul 31, 2017 09:45AM
Jeffrey Brannen
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Well, my fifteen year old book finally split its spine. In dealing with the twisted relationship of avant-garde art and pornography-"Pornography suspends value and preference in favor of novelty and variety; its plot is an additive sequence of equivalent encounters, rather than a directed progression towards unique fulfillment."
— Jul 29, 2017 03:57PM
Jeffrey Brannen
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Ornamental woman (the attractive woman) is dishonored and rejected in favor of her purer rival: form; but her allure was secretly smuggled in disguised through the fetish.
— Jul 29, 2017 10:04AM
Jeffrey Brannen
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein provides the lens through which to see her rejection of the Kantian vision of beauty, and the effects of Kant's emphasis on the sublime in 19th&20th century art's rejection of beauty.
— Jul 28, 2017 06:39PM
