Carolina QuotesFruit trees in this world are ancient and exhausted sticks coming out of poor soil; the people of the village are worn down to their skulls, caricatures of some ultimate grotesque typology of basic human feature types. How is it, then, that in Van Gogh such things as apple trees explode into a hallucinatory surface of color, while his village stereotypes are suddenly and garishly overlaid with hues of red and green?
Fredric Jameson Carolinian
Source
Chapter 1: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
- work
- Postmodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
- year
- 1991
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