Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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Page 271
... objects loomed up out of the carefully contrived semi- darkness : a fur - lined dish , an occasional table with the legs of a woman . On all sides ordinary things like walls and doors and flower vases were breaking free from human ...
... objects loomed up out of the carefully contrived semi- darkness : a fur - lined dish , an occasional table with the legs of a woman . On all sides ordinary things like walls and doors and flower vases were breaking free from human ...
Page 279
... objects , and persons , contain a large element of artifice . Nothing in nature can be campy .. Rural Camp is still man - made , and most campy objects are urban . ( Yet , they often have a serenity or a naïveté - which is the ...
... objects , and persons , contain a large element of artifice . Nothing in nature can be campy .. Rural Camp is still man - made , and most campy objects are urban . ( Yet , they often have a serenity or a naïveté - which is the ...
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... objects . In an era of mass tech- nological reproduction , the work of the serious artist had a spe- cial value simply because it was unique , because it bore his per- sonal , individual signature . The works of popular culture ( and ...
... objects . In an era of mass tech- nological reproduction , the work of the serious artist had a spe- cial value simply because it was unique , because it bore his per- sonal , individual signature . The works of popular culture ( and ...
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