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1. Paint It Black.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*CRITICAL analysis, *MONOCHROME painting, *PAINTING, *HISTORY of the arts, *SUPREMATISM (Art movement)
Abstract

This article presents a critical analysis of the work of painter Kazimir Malevich. Only in the most external and superficial respect does the 1915 black square by Malevich painted on a white ground belong to the history of monochrome painting. One of the immense contributions of Black Square to the concept of visual art lies in the fact that it freed the concept of painting from that of picturing, and thus opened up a new era in art history. The concept behind what Malevich called Suprematism is that one cannot carry things beyond Black Square.

Published
2003

2. Art.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*HISTORY of the arts, *ART objects, *ARTISTS
Abstract

In his "Principles of Art History," Heinrich Wölfflin wrote that not everything is possible at every time. Wölfflin had stylistic possibility (and impossibility) in mind, and it was his view that all artists belonging to a given period of art history share certain stylistic attributes, even if they should differ as sharply as the Dutch intimist Gerard Terborch did from his Italian contemporary Gianloreuzo Bernini. Art today has typically to be addressed from a plane different from the one the object itself occupies, so that even if one knows what the object is--a modular room, say--one does not know what the work is until one locates the plane from which it is to be interpreted.

Published
1997

3. Art.

Author

Danto, Arthur C.

Subjects
*EXPRESSIONISM (Art), *HISTORY of the arts, *PAINTING, *ART, *IMPRESSIONISM (Literature), *AESTHETICS
Abstract

Neo-Expressionism generated a relieved excitement, and the belief that the art history we had learned to take for granted was back on course. From the uptown point of view, painting was the primary vehicle of artistic change. From the downtown perspective, painting, if not altogether marginal, is but one of a large number of genres of art-making that combine and recombine in ways the uptown perspective stigmatizes as impure. It was from the uptown perspective that Neo-Expressionism seemed to have brought painting and art history back together.

Published
1996

4. Yak(but)nopatawpha.

Author

Winslow, Art

Subjects
*PRIMITIVISM in literature, *MANNERS & customs, *HISTORY of the arts, *BOOKS & reading
Abstract

This article presents information on the novel "Letourneau's Used Auto Parts," by Carolyn Chute. This book is recently published by Ticknor & Fields. This is the first novel by Chute and is supposed to be inspired by a novel "The Beans of Egypt, Maine," by Cole Deveau. Chute has been referred as a primitivist writer. She has set out to show that man will not only endure, he will prevail, to borrow from Faulkner, with whom she was perhaps inevitably compared when "The Beans" appeared. Castes and characters of Chute's novel are less criminal and sometimes humorous.

Published
1988

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