Sentences with phrase «art historical consciousness»

Not exact matches

Yet while the official art - historical narrative of that generation — Basbaum's peers include Beatriz Milhazes, Leonilson and Barrão, who came of age during the emergence of Brazilian democracy — highlights an almost postpolitical identity in which art is primarily a mode of self - expression as opposed to a form of social consciousness, Basbaum's sculptures, drawings, photographs and actions see the artist tie self - affirmation to the notion of the (still) political subject.

Camblin's vision of Atlanta puts it on the cusp of dynamic change, not only within the overlapping art communities that already animate it, but also in the city's public consciousness of itself as a historical site of divisive socioeconomic and racial policies.

What they share here — apart from the very strong painting that pervades the show — is a consciousness of the art historical tradition of painting within which each artist creates his or her work.

[2] Despite this historical highlighting of artistic unselfconsciousness, the field of outsider art presently exhibits an intense self - consciousness about defining its roots and basic nature, as evidenced by the 2015 Outsider Art Fair's published explanation of its origiart presently exhibits an intense self - consciousness about defining its roots and basic nature, as evidenced by the 2015 Outsider Art Fair's published explanation of its origiArt Fair's published explanation of its origins: