Re: {OT} Neo-Pictorialism and sentimentality

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From: Sandy King (sanking@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 10/13/03-12:56:58 PM Z


Judy Seigel wrote:

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>The task of art history is separating art from the taste with which it was
>received. This is done for ALL art, near and far. We learn that Rembrandt
>at the time of his death was dismissed as a has-been, and someone whose
>name I can't remember was star of the hour.

That is true, but the separation itself is being done within the
context of a particular taste, our own for these times.

Sandy

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