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This 4 page paper discusses Dick Higgin's ideas of intermedia contrasted with the views of Clement Greenberg's theories of art. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and a blank plane. Art, then, is an idea in concrete form. And yet, there were those art philosophers who argued about the medium or the intermedia of art and
its place in modern mans experiences. Dick Higgins, for more than forty years or so, was one of the preeminent artist of the modern era. His works tended to
be political and insightful by nature, seeking to provoke a strong response from his audience. One of his strongest stances was on the shift of artistic taste of the culture.
Higgins believes that the spread of television, radio, and the movies have brought the modern audience to become impatient with art that one has to spend a lot of
time with in order to derive its meaning. The complexity of day to day living has created a desire for simplicity, he argues(Fere). He cites as evidence the popularity of
the mixed media films and of event pieces. Clement Greenberg established what has become a highly contested theory of art which offers a different insight into the changing of
the cultures artistic sentiment. He often stated that "aesthetic value is an ultimate value but not a supreme one"(Frascina 71, see also Risatti). His belief, counter to Higgins, was that
modern art had driven itself into the embrace of the abstract by shifting its focus onto the conditions of the medium, or in other words the lack of depth(flatness). In
other words, embracing a good deal of Emanuel Kants beliefs about art for arts sake, he believed that art (in particular, paintings) had an element about them that no other
art form had: two dimensionality. This, then, he reasoned, was the basis for a shift toward this lack of depth in the paintings of the modern era. He
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