The first is that the Modern art historical construction of abstraction (via Clement Greenberg et al) ignored a centuries - long history of abstract and formalist practices from around the world. (contemporaryartstavanger.no)
Observing western art historical constructions, modalities of thought and contemporary discourse informs Benzant's practice while centering his work in community practices and rituals, drawing personal inspiration from the spirit and the oral traditions of the African ancestors that came across the Atlantic Ocean during the middle passage slave trade. (aljira.org)
First, a realization that modernity itself is a relative historical construction: that someday the Newtonian world - view, and that material image of reality, will seem as quaint as the Ptolemaic world - view does to us, as it already does amongst theoretical physicists, that reality undermines modernity's skepticism about God. (religion-online.org)