Fragmentation and Repetition - CSUS碎片和重复性及.docVIP

Note to students: Kirk Varnedoe (US 1946-2003) was an influential art historian and chief curator of painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This selection from his book about “what makes modern art modern” asks us to compare the use of fragmentation and repetition – formal elements considered essentially modern – by motion photographers Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge with Edgar Degas’ use of them in painting and Auguste Rodin’s in sculpture. What is Varnedoe’s thesis and how does he establish it? Be able to compare the works illustrated here on the basis of the meaning