Sentences with phrase «positive barbarism»

Also on Sunday, May 13, at 2 p.m., as part of the free lecture series «Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period,» Hal Foster will discuss the early work of Claes Oldenburg in the National Gallery of Art's East Building Auditorium, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.

In the six - part lecture series Positive Barbarism: Brutal Aesthetics in the Postwar Period, Hal Foster explores the pervasive turn, from the mid-1940s to the early 1960s, to the brut and the brutalist, the animal and the creaturely, as these are manifest in the early work of Jean Dubuffet, Georges Bataille, Asger Jorn, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Claes Oldenburg.

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The fruits of human lust, pride, and fear, when man supplants God are terrible and inevitable, but a recoil from the new barbarism of the mind already apparent behind the Iron Curtain will not suffice to build a new and positive culture in opposition to the Tyranny of the new errors.