Not exact matches
Russell and Rivers propose utopian communities and spiritual /
aesthetic ecstasy as alternatives; Reichardt's approach is more cynical and existential: she reinvigorates well - worn
conventions from film noir and heist pictures to analyse the problems of radical political action in the era of late capitalism.
Apart
from not fitting in with the mainstream
aesthetic i.e. tall, blonde, fit etc we also have to contend with traditional cultural
conventions that don't see travel blogging as something worthwhile and potentially lucrative.
With his novel
aesthetic inspired by Art Brut (a term he coined), Dubuffet succeeded in breaking away
from modernist
conventions and redefining the concept of art, and in doing so leaving his mark on the second half of the 20th century and exercising a considerable influence on numerous young artists.
Among the works in the exhibition are 25 photographs by Los Angeles artist Judy Fiskin
from her series Some
Aesthetic Decisions, 1990, that aestheticize objects, architecture and interiors that do not conform to
conventions of elevated taste.
Using her body to examine the role of female sensuality in connection to the possibilities of political and personal liberation
from predominantly oppressive social and
aesthetic conventions, Carolee Schneemann is regarded in art history as a pioneer of performance art.
The intense newness of Rauschenberg's work is often exacerbated in the first reviews of it by the fact that critics drew on conventional formal language and
aesthetic criteria to describe and evaluate objects that departed explicitly
from those same
conventions.
She champions the importance of women's sensual pleasure and she examines the possibilities of political and personal emancipation
from predominant social and
aesthetic conventions.
But the kind of drawing that appears to repeatedly and perpetually fly so free
from the constraints of form, fashion and
aesthetic conventions takes years of dedicated hard work, skill and a unique sort of brilliance to achieve.
As you might guess
from my earlier remarks, I'd probably be especially delighted with something with a learning - as - compression
aesthetic, letting me count how many kilobytes of confusion go away when we look at the world this way, but traditional statistical significance
conventions are OK too.