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Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.
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Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it is also clear that photography is too multiple, too useful to other discourses, ever to be wholly contained within traditional definitions of art.
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Douglas Crimp
Born:
August 18, 1944
Died:
July 5, 2019
(aged 74)
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Douglas Crimp was an American professor in art history based at the University of Rochester.
Known for:
On the museum's ruins (1993)
Before Pictures (2016)
Melancholia and Moralism (2002)
AIDS Demo Graphics (1990)
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