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Depiction, Object, Event

Modern and modernist art is grounded in the dialectic of depiction and anti-depiction, depiction and its negation within the regime of depiction. The self-criticism of art, that phenomenon we call both ‘modernist’ and ‘avant-garde’, originated in terms of the arts of depiction and, for the hundred years beginning in 1855, remained within their framework…