The Allegorical Impulse Part I

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artist: Eduardo Navas

inception: 2002

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This net installation re-evaluates the essay "The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism" by Craig Owens. Inside the website you will find quotations taken directly from Owens' text. Artworks by artists used as examples in the essay have been scanned and optimized as sliced images for the web; a Javascript calls these slices at random to create a grid composition.
The Allegorical Impulse part I is the first project in a two part series. This first part considers how what Owens wrote in the eighties is understood after eighteen years. The second part will consider current writers following Owens' line of thinking.

attributed to: Eduardo Navas

inception: 12 October 2002

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postmodernism, Craig Owens, Whitney Artport, The Allegorical Impulse in Art after Modernism

Attribution: Eduardo Navas

historical, Database, contextual, Conceptual, allegory, postmodern, netart, language, art world, archive, Javascript, HTML, Visual, Text

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artist: Eduardo Navas

title: The Allegorical Impulse Part I

inception: 2002

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access URL: http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/navas/index.html

inception: 2002

associated with: Eduardo Navas

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access URL: http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/5631/Allegorical(navas)/

inception: 12 October 2002

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associated with: Rhizome staff