temporary contemporary

 

“In his view, pure contemporarity would never be possible, because being absolutely with time would permit no future, no past, and this no present. It would amount to the identity of being and time - an impossibility” (Smith, pp.12)

 

“The bold reversal of contemporary usage was understandably slow in being accepted; occasionally, where the context left no room for doubt, Vasari himself relapses into the earlier habit of using the word moderno in the sense of “no longer classical” (vis., “mediaeval”) instead of in the sense of “no-longer mediaeval” (viz., ‘of the present”)” (Panofsky, pp.35)

 

 

 

“ . . . you must simultaneously affirm the existence of the object while denying the relevance of the tern that designates that existence. Or perhaps it might be better to admit that the notions, that cluster around the word ‘modern’ are as unavoidable as they are unacceptable” (Jameson, pp.13)

 

 

“Newer modernists operate on the principle of intensification and desire, they want to loosen modernism and give it some more of what it had” (Lavin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Done