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«Of course the movies are going to be the more visible, more high profile, for the simple reason that a lot more money is involved and this is a largely money-oriented society. ... Nevertheless, this is a very good book town, whether it's known to be that or not, and that's why you have something like this.»
«Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals,»
«In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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dehumanized, Final Analysis, in the final analysis, modes, more or less, stylized, stylizing
«Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.»
«He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.»
«Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.»
«Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.»
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