another possibity

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Note added at 7 hrs (2011-02-13 22:31:00 GMT)
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…..They painted artworks of unprecedented skill and beauty and were responsible for raising the status of the artist in society from the level of artisan to an intellectual plane on a par with writers, philosophers and scientists.
http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/timelines/wester...


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Note added at 7 hrs (2011-02-13 22:45:29 GMT)
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I would obstain from using "intellectual level" because it implies comparison rather than a state of mind.

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Note added at 11 hrs (2011-02-14 02:11:43 GMT)
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In light of the twenty-first century’s surfeit of styles and variable critical voices, contemporary curators continue to seek works that recycle themes at the conceptual heart of early modernism. In Neo-Avant Garde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955-1975 (2003), professor of art history and critic, Benjamin Buchloh posits the systematic reappearance of the modes of cultural production established in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Buchloh adds how, through Duchamp and other early modernists who established anti-art and the “ready-made”, troubled, if not reduced to obsolescence, the critic’s authoritative position. In the era following, critics were suddenly tasked with making sense of works on a new intellectual plane. “Between Spaces” presents the full extent of this development, but also its sedentary history. In fact, the show’s premise wholly validates what Buchloh refers to as the critic’s definitive “privileged modes of seeing,” which implies that to be relevant and progressive, the work should preserve the narrow accessibility and assumed knowledge of academic critiques.
http://artwrit.com/VOL2/06.html


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Note added at 2 days21 hrs (2011-02-16 12:52:36 GMT) Post-grading
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