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Art After Metaphysics
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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950
"If Modernist Art had been about the shift from the waking consciousness of European space to the level of dreaming consciousness and the realm of Jungian myth formations, then Pollock’s work represents a scission from that level and a dropping down to one level further, what the Hindus in the Upanishads call the level of deep dreamless sleep, where no forms exist at all, only the causal zones of energy that gives rise to such forms."
- John David Ebert, Art After Metaphysics, p. 48
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"Throughout the history of painting, the artist has had a vertical axis of the spinal column. But now with Pollock the axis begins to shift to a horizontal axis. And a horizontal axis to the spinal column means there's a becoming animal aspect to it."
- John David Ebert, YouTube
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Calude Monet - Impression, Sunrise - 1872
"Indeed, the French Impressionists are the first Deconstructionists: they sweep the stage clean of all previous iconotypes, and elevate the secular iconotypes of the landscape painting and the still life to the main field of fascination..."
"It is an amnesic art, an art that wills to forget the past and proceeds as though there were no such thing as History. All the grand metanarratives, in other words, are already in full disintegration. The Impressionists regard them as irrelevant: the only thing that matters now is this present moment."
- John David Ebert, Art After Metaphysics, p. 19
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Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893
"In the post-metaphysical age, being-in-the-world now means a being-thrown into the world… a real outside now appears for the first time; the individual finds himself thrown into the world in a sort of horizontal direction, full of angst and care, and unprotected by any overarching metaphysical immune system…. There are neither journeys upward, nor any downward to make, for the individual must now crawl about the surface of the earth in quest of drastic solutions to the crisis of shell-lessness.”
- John David Ebert, Art After Metaphysics, p.4
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