Summarizing her core
aesthetic concerns over the years, Li concisely states: «Mass / Volume — Weight / Time — Order / Construct — Icon / Archetype».
Sadly, the Whitney has moved farther and farther away from my sensibility and
aesthetic concerns over the years.
Not exact matches
An essential element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer
concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away from «actions
over against nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the
aesthetic value of experience.
Whether in the realm of social justice, community building, spirituality or environmental
concerns, the claim of art as a pure domain of disinterested
aesthetic contemplation has been relentlessly challenged for
over two centuries.
Conceptual art is art in which the concept (s) or idea (s) involved in the work take precedence
over traditional
aesthetic and material
concerns.
And
over time, these patterns and systems gave way to a more formal interest, where now the material of wood itself has became the primary subject and
aesthetic concern.
Instead, the show demonstrates Sillman's engagement with formal and expressionistic
concerns as they have persisted
over the last twenty - five years, evolving as visual ideations more so than a singular
aesthetic.
Studio Museum assistant curator Naima J. Keith and independent curator Zoe Whitley have collected
over 60 works by 29 international artists around the concept of «Afrofuturism,» a term coined in 1994 by theorist Mark Dery to indicate an
aesthetic mode that intermingles pan-African
concerns with science fiction and fantasy imagery.
Ever since the shock of the politically charged, identity - oriented 1993 Biennial, there has been the expectation by some that Whitney curators are obligated to make these kind of selections that reflect the social climate of the country
over any other topic or
aesthetic concern.