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non-representational = abstract = deconstructed to unconscious?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 7:53am.

Seriously interesting set of issues (to me at least).  Are there parallels in writing to the suggested sequence in art?  Can writing be "non-representational"?  Yep, I think so.  Or, more accurately, writing (like painting) can be representational to a greater or lesser degree, abstract to a greater or lesser degree.  Here's the sequence. 

Early Impressionism  Later Impressionism  Abstraction
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference.
A or B
Not A
Therefore B

For more along these lines, see Realism to impressionism to abstraction and back again, in words.  

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