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Photography was a major shaper and creator of modernism, Discuss.
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Photography was a major shaper and creator of modernism, Discuss. Art is an activity characteristic of humanity since the dawn of civilisation. In any epoch the Artist, by virtue of special gifts, expresses that which is finest in humanity...the visual artist archives this through modes of understanding and expression which are 'purely visual' - radically distinct from, for example, verbalisation. This special characteristic of art necessarily makes it an autonomous sphere of activity, completely separate from the everyday world of social and political life. The autonomous nature of visual art means that questions asked of it may only be properly put, and answered, in its own terms - all other forms of interrogation are irrelevant. In the modern world the function of art is to preserve and enhance its own special sphere of civilising human values in an increasingly dehumanising technological environment. If these beliefs sound familiar - perhaps even...
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