Stein 2

Gertrude Stein Three Lives (Portraits of 3 women) and Picasso (Desmoiselles d'Avignon )1905
Cubism & Bracques and Picasso
Generating multiplicity as a governing element of reality; cubism.

Picasso and Primitivism. (Unpacking Primitivism)
Negative semiotics.
Anthropological aspect emphasized - robs of artistic merit.


Freud.
D.H Lawrence - Savage tribalism.


Primitivism - Marlowe "they were not inhuman". He doesn't have the vocabulary to truly humanize Africans. Different doctorates take hold at end of 19th century. Primitivism reminds us of imperial horrors. PRIMITIVISM is the AESTHETIC side of IMPERIALISM. "Lets fetishize these people; art, culture, soil."


also; ORIENT is similarly derogatory. Reveals western centric view of other culture.

How do we ask about these terms that have emerged?

lots of Politics.

Modes of Representation are multiplicitous

capturing the process of receiving.

Stein pears down her writing.
makes the meanings of words indeterminate.
Stein rejected tradition. Comfort.

process. How words signify almost important as what of words mean.OPEN ENDED WORDS.

Writes in an every day idiom. carefully constructed artlessness. a modernism that instrumentally analyzes language.

multiple meanings. Complex uses of simplicity and repetition; repetition as a system of differences. Undoing established practices and reforming language.

Temporality. Stein reminds us that reading takes place in time.

not concerned about MEMORY. CONSTRUCTING THE CONTINUOUS PRESENT.

Nation - (essentialism?) nations very conscience unlike ever before after WWI.