The Image Valued 'As Found' and the Reconfiguring of Mimesis in Post-War Art.
In: Art History, Jg. 37 (2014-09-01), Heft 4, S. 784-805
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Pop and new realist painting, with its deployment of prefabricated images circulating in the mass media, is conventionally seen as operating in a mode like the readymade and as rejecting traditional mimesis. This essay argues that the artistic process involved is better understood as a kind of mimesis in which imagery taken ‘as found’ is variously replicated and modifi ed while being realized in a medium of some kind. An approach to artistic fabrication in which the basic form of the image is taken as given, so it retains a charge inherent in its existence as cultural or natural artefact, independent of the artist’s subjective impulses, is hardly particular to this post-war moment in the history of art. What was rejected, it is argued, was a very particular post-Romantic understanding of depiction in which the shaping of the image was valued for conveying an artist’s imaginative response to something seen or imagined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Image Valued 'As Found' and the Reconfiguring of Mimesis in Post-War Art.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Potts, Alex |
Zeitschrift: | Art History, Jg. 37 (2014-09-01), Heft 4, S. 784-805 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2014 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0141-6790 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8365.12115 |
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