Sentences with phrase «art philistine»

Not exact matches

Usually the NEA held its nose and promoted that bad old, bland old, socially acceptable art, but occasionally it broke out and promoted the art of self - congratulatory complaint - and now (as the NEA sees it) the philistine Congress is howling for its blood.

Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....

«This is where the philistine concept of art turns up with all its deadly obtuseness — an idea to which all technical considerations are foreign and which feels that with the provocative appearance of the new technology its end has come» (Walter Benjamin: Kleine Geschichte der Photographie in Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit Frankfurt 1963 p. 69).

Digital manga seems ripe for a «philistine» option, where the touch of a button would result in mirrored art and re-rendered lettering (which I'm assuming is all vectors floating above the art, in these translations).

Over a century has passed since artists turned decisively to nonrepresentational art, but visit a museum & you'll still hear some philistine opine: «I could bloody paint that!?».

But the Turner prize's greatest failing, he claimed, was that its hunger for sensation has hardened public attitudes against contemporary art and played to philistine prejudice.

A contentious philistine, Hughes ridicules everything he doesn't understand, and he doesn't understand very much of what's interesting or provocative of the art of his own time.

The Arts Foundation Awards is a celebration of the vibrant creativity that underpins our economy and culture and it stands in sharp relief to the destructive lack of vision displayed by the philistines and dullards who we currently allow to run this country.

Weldon Kees discussed the issue of the open letter further in the June 5 edition of The Nation, calling director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Henry Taylor a philistine.

The Philistine will be on display in February 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto and in February of 2020 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.

Still, he is alert to the double standards at large in the room, the fact that, as he discusses the canvas in his «philistine» cockney accent, using words no ruder than those appearing in the artwork, he is in some way soiling the high - minded experience of the «real» art lovers.

Humor was anathema to abstract art as long as abstraction itself was the butt of philistine jokes.

WYFYOCNHDT is a healthy antidote to the philistine carping that denigrates «modern art» in all its forms — expressionism, cubism, action painting, etc..