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Catttt Posted 5 years ago
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Following someone

Does "Following" in the following text somehow imply "being inspired by"?


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The thrust of Witkin’s argument was to read transformations in social structure and relations as they are reflected in artworks. This was exemplifi ed through a detailed analysis of Manet’s Olympia. Following art historians such as T. J. Clark and Linda Nochlin, Witkin “read” Olympia in its historical and social context, as a critical insider’s commentary on the bourgeois male world of late nineteenth-century Paris.

  

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catttt Does "Following" in the following text somehow imply "being inspired by"? Something like that, yes. Maybe a bit of "building on" and "in the manner of" mixed in.

— Anonymous

  • catttt Does "Following" in the following text somehow imply "being inspired by"?
  • Something like that, yes.
  • Maybe a bit of "building on" and "in the manner of" mixed in.
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cattttDoes "Following" in the following text somehow imply "being inspired by"?

Something like that, yes. Maybe a bit of "building on" and "in the manner of" mixed in.

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cattttDoes "Following" ...?

You can take "following (X)" in contexts like this to mean "following the example of (X)", "using (X) as the model".

CJ

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