The Anti-Representational Image of Art

A lot of 20th century philosophy in theory and art has been anti-representational picture is not mean if you take a painting first of all you have abstract paintings instead of paintings showing landscapes or portraits whatever. The idea is that it's not reproducing a real scene so much is what the artist does with the scene. Even science fiction novels like Ulysses which is a formal experiment in all kind of ways is also a portrayal of one day in Dublin at a particular date but nonetheless you're still describing a scene. A lot of old-sized fictions and some new owners just seems to really written in service of prose It tells you what's happening without being particularly beautiful writing or saying

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