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Modernism & its institutions.(Lengthened shadows: II)(Critical Essay)
I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume, of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to expose the Absolute, and not merely the factitious woman.
--Georges Braque, circa 1908
Subject, with her, is often incidental.
--Wallace Stevens, on the poetry of Marianne Moore, 1935
Content is a glimpse of something, an ...
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