Sentences with phrase «aesthetic significance of his work»

BOOKSHELF Check out these recent studies of the aforementioned artists and their practices: Part of the Wexner Center for the Arts series, Mark Bradford is the first major book on the artist and features images and essays examining the social and aesthetic significance of his work.

There is no pictorial or aesthetic significance of the work's construction.

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Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8

Although a great deal of research and work is necessary to determine the aesthetic and historical significance of this current display, we may be assured that the so - far - generated polemics regarding its place and meaning have laid the foundation for its enduring significance not only in Iran but also worldwide.

Calling attention to a series of works that have not yet been fully appreciated for their true significance in the artist's development, «Philip Guston: Painter, 1957 — 1967» explores a decade in which Guston confronted aesthetic concerns of the New York School, questioning modes of image making and what it means to paint abstractly.

Including over sixty works, many of which have never before been shown in the United States, the retrospective provides a fresh and in - depth examination of the evolution of the artist's aesthetic and illustrates the significance of his contributions to the field of postwar painting.

A text that is almost entirely, rather than only momentarily, diagnostic in orientation is Barbara Rose's excellent, and unfortunately little remembered, «The Value of Didactic Art» of 1967, which ambitiously lays out the terms of a particular shift where works of art — those inheritors of the precedent of Duchamp's unassisted readymade — began to derive their value and significance from visually presenting a particular argument, rather than by engaging the viewer in primarily aesthetic terms, which this didactic art rendered at best marginal or incidental.

This publication aims not to draw out any notion of influence or direct correlation between these bodies of work, but rather to elucidate a resonance between two artists who both engage transformative processes to invest the humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.

«Ancestors of Congo Square» proves to be a seminal work in the field of African art, and students, scholars, African enthusiasts and the general public alike will enjoy this book both for its educational significance as well as its aesthetic value.

In Glass scale model, the rocks have autobiographical significance, as Tuerlinckx collected them over time, but they also contain formal significance, as shapes, colors and textures that contribute to an aesthetic appreciation of the work.

International Curitiba's Biennal complete 20 years and open their activities on 31 August, have a premise «As art works remain while themes / titles are forgotten, this edition of the Curitiba Biennial will focus on the selection of art works that could represent an aesthetic experience of significance to the city».

That said, the significance of Akerman's work for the present moment is not merely a formal or medial matter, but is strongly connected to her programmatic interrogation of issues that concern biography, gender, identity, and memory, all of which are framed against the backdrop of her groundbreaking exploration of the aesthetic of everyday life.