Most writers generally don’t mind when historians or students borrow their words, but beware the “new secret plagiarists, the media and communications behemoths whose magazines and newspapers, cable networks and film companies routinely raid the work of biographers to satisfy their ceaseless need for product – at no cost.” – Brill’s Content
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POST-MODERN IN AN “AFTER-MODERN” WORLD
“We’re living in a postmodern world. We don’t know what that means yet. All we know is that what we have now is not the same thing we had had before. We’re ‘after-modern.’ We’ve deconstructed all the foundations of the modern world to see how they were put together in the first place. It’s been a fascinating task, and we’ve been very successful. Problem is we don’t know anything about building foundations. We just know how to take them apart.” – *spark-online
ART FROM AN URBAN UNDERWORLD
In a nation with an almost oppressive sense of conformity, the shocking new artists in China’s southern-most province rebel against not only official orthodoxy but even the mainstream avant-garde. It has also become symbolic of a new southern avant-garde that has, in recent years, taken root in the fast-moving Shenzhen region. – ARTnews