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Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the "Redemptive Power" of the Abstracted Image

Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the "Redemptive Power" of the Abstracted Image

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Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the "Redemptive Power" of the Abstracted Image

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Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the "Redemptive Power" of the Abstracted Image

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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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Rocky Mountain review of language and literature, 2004-01, Vol.58 (1), p.7-29

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English

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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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By the early nineteenth century, artists began replacing the concrete, traditional religious images of faith with abstracted images that emphasized their compositional elements, specifically color and shape. Soon, art was becoming a quasi-religion composed of these secular symbols of color and shape, and poetart critics as the modern "priests" to d...

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Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the "Redemptive Power" of the Abstracted Image

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_1566627

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_1566627

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0361-1299

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