Sentences with phrase «modern art history usually»

Spectacles without Objects explores — through text, images and sound recordings — specific occurrences of utopian performances in the past, way before the XXth century, before the moment Modern Art History usually assigns to the beginnings of performance art.

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Abstract art is usually thought of as a modern invention, but its history in Turkey goes back centuries, even millennia.

MoMA's early history is marked by an ongoing interest in celebrating forms and techniques not usually considered in the context of fine art — perhaps the outgrowth of its habitual revolt against the strictures of good taste as the museum worked to legitimize «ugly» and «nonsensical» Modern art in the 1930s.