In our case we chose to create — or suggest — a dialogue
between historical works on paper, abstracts from 1968 to 1988 by Eugene James Martin (1938 - 2005), and bring them into a conversation with small - scale paintings by three abstract painters, Clayton Colvin, Odili Donald Odita, and Leslie Smith III, all of which have a profound drawing quality in their work.
DEGAM was the first museum in Italy to focus on the relationship
between historical works and contemporary works.
«Our program is devoted to establishing dialogue
between historical work and contemporary practices,» says Parker, and that approach is very much in evidence at their stellar booth of fired works at NADA New York this year.
Not exact matches
The very arrangement of the biblical books in the Hebrew canon of scripture presupposes this definition of prophetism.1
Between the first division of the Law and the third division of the Writings, the central category of the Prophets embraces not only the books of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve prophets from Hosea to Malachi (all together termed «Latter Prophets») but also the
historical writings of Joshua, Judges, and the books of Samuel and Kings («Former Prophets») In this way the Hebrew Bible formally and appropriately acknowledges that prophetism is more than the prophet and his
work, that it is also a way of looking at, understanding, and interpreting history.
What Bultmann means is that the difference
between the mythological language of the New Testament and ecclesiastical dogma on the one hand and his own interpretation on the other is that the former presents us with a «miraculous, supernatural event», whereas the right interpretation is one which suggests «an
historical event
wrought out in time and space».
My students are mostly Jewish and Christian, since the relationship
between these two traditions is the center of my
work, but we have given much thought to the relation of our traditions to the others, especially to Islam, which stands in a special relationship to ours for both
historical and theological reasons.
He is also a powerful novelist whose
works of
historical fiction» The First Circle, August 1914, Cancer Ward, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» depict the enduring struggles
between good and evil in the human heart.
In 1892 the liberal movement was at its height, Schweitzer's
work was still fourteen years in the future, and the discussion was
between, on the one hand, an orthodoxy still claiming the gospels as
historical documents and the Christ of the Church's faith as a
historical figure, and, on the other hand, a liberalism claiming the gospels as non-
historical in their present form, but as capable of being used as
historical sources, sources for the reconstruction of a
historical Jesus to be distinguished from the Christ of the gospels.
The decline of white men as the dominant class in society surely plays a significant role in the success of racist strongmen in election, but it can't be denied that the current economic order of things simply isn't
working, or the
historical correlation
between economic downturns and an increase in xenophobic nationalism.
For the first year of the child's life, she split her
working time
between home, where she wrote papers and grant applications, and the university's herbarium, where she restored
historical plant specimens.
The
work is supported through DOE environmental management and is a collaboration
between the National
Historical Museums and Luleå University in Sweden, PNNL, WSU and the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute.
Between 1962 and his death in 1977, Rossellini was to make forty - two hours of
historical films, treating topics as diverse as the Acts of the Apostles and the life of the seventeenth - century French philosopher Descartes, and at his death he was
working on further
historical projects, including one on Marx.
Adam Driver believes there's a «weirdly paternal» relationship that develops
between actors and directors, something which he experienced when
working with one of his heroes, Martin Scorsese.Driver
worked with Scorsese on
historical drama Silence and...
Drawing on numerous film
historical references, from Hitchcock to the director's own earlier Movida era
work, Almodóvar's twentieth feature, adapted from three short stories by Alice Munro («Chance,» «Soon,» and «Silence»), is a haunting drama that oscillates
between disenchanted darkness and visual opulence.
A special Unit of
work in Art & design with lesson plans This pack provides teachers with a unique and readily accessible toolkit to engage students in the
historical and cultural links
between Jamaica and Britain; it can also be used as a relevant blue print for teaching about other cultures in context.
It has meant narrowing
historical differences
between people, cultures, races, civilizations, histories, technologies, politics and lifestyles in order to create bridges where people and organizations with a common good can see the need to
work together and that hopeless people can also dream and
work hard to leave their vulnerabilities which in many instances is not their making.
From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in
between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the
work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the
historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery
between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.
Shakespeare's
work features some of the most memorable stories and characters ever created, yet for too many curious readers the combination of ultra-dense dialogue and unfamiliar
historical settings make tackling the Bard's
work something
between a tedious chore and a confusing mess of bird - bolts and quondam carpet - mongers.
Diversification strategies only
work if the
historical relationships
between investments continue in the future; the DRS was designed to address market risk directly.
The Funk Zone is Santa Barbara's unique arts, business, and industrial district that resides
between State St. and Garden St., and Montecito St. to Cabrillo Blvd.. This amalgamation of
historical marine structures, industrial lots, and old houses gives the zone it's face, while it's occupants that reside and
work there give it the soul, supporting a mixture of creative uses.
He's interested in examining the exchange
between artist and viewer; his reviews provide readers with the intellectual and
historical context that informs both the artist and the
work.
I don't know what's «industry standard practice» for fine art galleries these days, regarding pricing
works on paper vs.
works on canvas, but my suspicion is that the reason for the *
historical * difference
between the two is that
works on paper are perceived to be less «serious» (after all, watercolor started out as a quick way for oil painters to sketch out drafts), and less long - lasting (historically, a lot of watercolors were fugitive, and tended to fade with time, unlike varnished oil paintings).
Questioning the distinctions
between high and low art, Ceramics presents new
works that are an appropriation and celebration of the cultural and
historical vernacular traditions of her native Poland and a wider European context.
In it, Guilbaut points out the
historical parallels
between van Velde's
work and the emerging Abstract Expressionist esthetic and the missed opportunities for a dialog
between two esthetics so fundamentally close to each other, but separated by their ideological contexts.
For the past decade Gilsdorf has
worked in a range of mediums to explore relationships
between historical accounts, emblems of authority, and media representations that influence our perception of current events.
They also show her flaunting art -
historical tradition, playing with the boundaries
between painting and collage, using materials unexpectedly, and infusing her
work with her a sense of alchemy.
Kiaer's
works often reference the interaction
between the external world and obscure idealistic
historical figures or movements.
Interstitial seeks to answer this question through the examination of new and recently - created free - standing sculptures by contemporary Los Angeles - based object makers whose
work exists in the interstices, the spaces
between the
historical genres of the decorative arts, still life, and abstraction.
Oscillating
between modernism and postmodernism, the term metamodernism represents contemporary
work concerned with modes of self - expression while reviving
historical principals and techniques.
He typically finds the sources for his
work within the materials, advertising, and packaging produced by technology and media companies, and often deploys graphic interfaces borrowed from commercial display to highlight connections
between the utopian goals of the new media economy and those of
historical modernism.
As a part of the Amon Carter's ongoing exploration of the relationship
between historical and contemporary art, Surls will speak about his
work, how he started as a sculptor, and the process and materials he uses while displaying images of his
work and process.»
Painted from
historical photographs taken from old magazines, family albums and the propagandist publications distributed by the government during the Cultural Revolution, At a time of immense and rapid socio - economic change in China, these
works look back at its past, marking a fragile line with delicate layers of ash
between individual memory and official
historical record.
Her
work is easy to consider in art
historical terms as we see direct parallels
between the amorphous monochromes of the more atmospheric photograms and Helen Frankenthaler's color field paintings.
Working with appropriated images and texts, Gilsdorf creates sculptures and performances that delve into the relationship
between historical narratives, the iconography of authority, and the ways in which representations influence our perception of cultural values.
Her
works move
between film and theatre, fact and fiction,
historical models and subjective adaptations.
Curated by Andrea Lissoni in the «Shed» space, the exhibition offers a selection of Condorelli's most significant
works, which reveal her ability to
work with the relationships
between art and architecture, space and socio -
historical contexts.
Meet the artist / curator: Ashley Jude Jonas By Eva Buttacavoli Photo: Ashley Jude Jonas, «Buffalo Husband» As artistic practices have expanded beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, often incorporating
historical context, editing and interpretation —
work typically associated with the curator — we are seeing a blurring of the boundaries
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Visitors are encouraged to make both technical and thematic comparisons
between the artworks, study
historical documentation that places Still's family in 1920s Alberta where the artwork may have been painted, and draw conclusions about the authorship of this
work.
The featured
works, all made
between 1970 and 1979, reflect the
historical, socio - political and cultural landscapes of the decade.
Influenced by
historical American painters and adventurers, but echoing video games and digital animation, her
works demonstrate the current literal and metaphorical distance
between entertainment and reality.
Allowing the viewer to see the
works through visual cues and
historical connections, looking at the image within the photograph as well as relationships
between photographs, this exhibition seeks to engender new «ways of looking.»
In 1979, Chase - Riboud published her first novel, «Sally Hemings,» a
work of
historical fiction based on the complex relationship
between Thomas Jefferson and Hemings, his slave, with whom he had several children.
This exhibition takes Nevelson as a point of inspiration and further explores the visual and
historical connections
between her wooden sculpture Untitled (ca. 1976 — 78) and other
works from the Kemper Museum Permanent Collection.
I had not realized how direct and
historical the connection was
between what had been called lyrical or formalist painting and subsequent feminist
work.
While the
work emphasizes the fraught
historical ties
between Northern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa, it also probes recent — and ongoing — experiences of displacement, indigeneity and human trafficking that persist on both continents.
The mission of the museum includes «weaving a continuous exchange
between its own
historical works and today's cultural debate, and setting a close relationship for its exhibition program
between contemporary and
historical collections.»
A tribute to the technical nature of Albers» Bauhaus influence — in addition to Dávila's own architectural background — the
work also comments on the hierarchical relationship
between artist and artisan, canvas and craft, particularly considering the social and art
historical importance of ceramic tile in Mexican culture.
The artists» shared exhibition history, with Peláez showing her
work alongside the new abstract generation in the 1950s, challenges the art
historical narrative of a rupture
between the early
The exhibition will feature large - scale vitrines, mirror wall panels and photographic
works that reveal a
historical link
between contemporary consumer display forms and their early 20th century precursors.
Their current
work explores the relationship
between contemporary art making practices and the
historical tradition of romantic landscape painting.