Sentences with phrase «between high modernism»

In comparison, the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press, 2004) focuses more on the theoretical than on the political implications of this transitional period between high modernism and postmodernism, when the United States overthrew the shackles of European dominance and became a world - class art power.

Not exact matches

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

As an idea, formalism reached its peak in the period of high modernism, between the last decades of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.

One compact definition offered is that while post-modernism acts in rejection of modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, and to eradicate the boundaries between high and low forms of art, to disrupt genre and its conventions with collision, collage and fragmentation.

Her intricate looped and tied wire sculptures sit comfortably between the biomorphic high modernism of Brancusi, Arp, and Noguchi, and the wider world of engineering, design, and craft.

Since the turn of the century, cultural connections between artists of the major European cities had become extremely active as they strove to create an art form equal to the high aspirations of modernism.

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

This conversation between works that represent a historic high point in British Modernism and the concerns of artists working today is central to the way the Pier Collection has developed over the last 10 years.