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What Comes Before Modern Art?
On Perception, Instability, and The Birth of Modern Vision Modern art is often understood as a break: a decisive break with tradition, representation, and established visual order. But this view risks confusing the visible result with the deeper transformation that precedes it. When modern art suddenly emerges, it is because something has already shifted in our thinking. The question, therefore, is not simply when art becomes modern, but how it becomes modern, what conditions

ICR | Institute of Conceptual Research
Dec 19, 20253 min read
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