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46. Abstract expressionism: the manipulation of reality through its technique of spontaneous creation on the canvas.
47." The reason why Rothko is great is that he forced artists who came after him to change how they thought about painting."--- the useful definition of artistic greatness.
49. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the  culture tosses up figure almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.
(Actuality, nature and truth are the essential factors of the creation of art.)
52.-58. Different Types of Writing and their influences.
Novels under Modernism long for more narration,  and their voices grow less compelling.
Plot is somewhat unreal(it dramatize the reality, and since that the formulas are sometimes predictable). People seek new means of creating the real.
Paintings(compared with photos) and novels are not as central as to the culture as they once were.
59. There are 2 unmistakable  and distinctly positive effects of novels-as-autobiography: First, they deliberately undermine the traditional and largely spurious authority of the novelist by depriving him of his privileged position above and beyond the world; and second, they narrow the gap that exists between fiction and autobiography, a gap that us artificial to begin with.
63. Since memoirs(which come from memories) are somewhat unreliable, and memories can be buried, lost, blocked, repressed even recovered. To this extent, memoirs really can claim to be modern novels, all the way down to the presence of an unreliable narrator.
66. Today the most compelling creative energies seem directed at nonfiction.
69. There are two sorts of artist, one not being in the least superior to the other. One responds to the history of his are so far; the other responds to life itself. (Sort of don't understand, especially for the 1st half of the sentence.)
70.-71. The more autobiographical the writing is, the more it splinters and explodes. Truth, uncompromisingly told, will always have its ragged edges.
72. The lyric essay takes the subjectivity of the personal essay, and the objectivity of the public essay and  conflates them into literary form that relies on both art and fact, on imagination and observation, rumination and argumentation, human faith and human perception.
79. Facts coming alive,(they quicken), multiply, change shape, elude us, and bombard our lives with increasingly suspicious promises. Facts are not inert.