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Modernism

I shall call modern the art which devotes its "little technical expertise", as Diderot used to say, to present the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible: this is what is at stake in modern painting. ...
The Postmodern Condition: A report on Knowledge
Jean-Francois Lyotard

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2008.02.05 -0600

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