American critic Michael Fried, in the essay "Art and Objecthood" (1967), apotheosized "art" in contrast to "theatricality"—another version of Greenberg's elevation of formal art over literary art, more particularly of Cubism over Dadaism arguing that "it is by virtue of their presentness and instantaneousness that modernist painting and sculpture defeat theater".
What set the Texas Tower shooting apart was the instantaneousness of its coverage on radio and television by reporters on the scene who described the events as they happened.
At first the camera was seen as a tool that could replace the artist's hand, but over time the camera's unique capacities its instantaneousness and ability to see more than the human eye (and with better focus)—clearly set a photograph apart from a painting and made photography not an adjunct study but rather a distinct medium valuable in and of itself.
The poem, one of Davis's many "shattered sonnets," as she has called them, draws these lines in order to color outside of them; her small "i" isn't so much an homage to Cummings as it is a nod to text messages and Gchat, forms of written communication that operate under the conditions of instantaneousness previously reserved for speech.
Beginning with this issue, that generalized instantaneousness has come: The New Yorker will be available on the Apple iPad, on Mondays, wherever you happen to be.
The site is revealed at the last moment, both to avoid gate-crashing and to preserve instantaneousness.
She is also not alarmed by the instantaneousness of things — by writers and bloggers spitting out iPhone images before a collection is even digested, a situation that led an art director here to remark, "They're burning up the dream almost immediately".
Through it all, cameras were there, recording history, but also shaping it and controlling our reception of it, just as ubiquitous as digital photography and the visual instantaneousness of social media are — to a degree absolutely unimaginable 50 years back — in catching and creating histories today.
Picture-taking is largely about capturing instantaneousness, the "decisive moment," but Mr. Link took great pains to arrange his compositions.
The next gallery includes a text-painting of a quotation from Greenberg about the instantaneousness of aesthetic judgment — which is considerably slowed down here by the reading process.
I realized, the more I struggled, that Mr. Naipaul, in refusing these prompts, was defending a notion of writing that is at war with instantaneousness.
