LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE.(Review) (movie review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by KLEIN, JULIA M.
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Art about art is not a postmodernist invention. What the critic Harold Bloom has called "the anxiety of influence" underlies works from Vermeer's The Art of Painting to Eliot's The Waste Land. The postmodernist twist is partly a question of form, partly of attitude. Today's borrowings are often self-conscious and profligate, and the pell-mell juxtaposition of historical styles and periods can be read not just as a tribute but as a critique of style itself.
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Take the case of the musical, a peculiarly American form that is periodically mourned and then re-imagined. A ...
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