“By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.” HeartArtMadeSelfWholePossibilityObjectsExpressionPhotographyConceptsOriginalsIndividualityCopiesAestheticOriginalityGesturesUniquenessStereotypeRepetitionSelf ExpressionExposingMultiplicityCoherence Author:Rosalind E. Krauss
“More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.” PastBirthRejectionZeroOriginalityLiteralAvant GardeDissolutionGround Zero Book:The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths Source: The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
