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However, at the same time there's an idea
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that the artist is a kind of technician,
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someone whose values are craft, form and style rather than message,
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personal expression or wisdom of any kind.
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Sixth, this is a term from the critic Joseph Frank: spatial form,
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the idea that in place of a linear narrative
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you have a system of cross-references
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and repeated motifs that give the structure of works.
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In place that is only visible,
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in other words on rereading, only visible on rereading.
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And then, this anticipates my last points:
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Modernism is self-consciously international.