Sentences with phrase «century art historians»

She added that 20th century art historians had edited out much of the contribution of women painters.

If you could have dinner with just one 20th - century art historian, you might want to choose Leo Steinberg (1920 - 2011).

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Virtually all art historians who have critiqued this painting see it as a rejection of religion (particularly the Bible) for the modern, joyous lifestyle of 19th - century France.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

Some years ago I encountered a young Jewish art historian who was doing his doctoral dissertation on the sculpture of the great 14th century Romanesque Church of Saint - Pierre at Aulney in France.

OSV historians will demonstrate sketching, theorem painting, botanical watercolors, and will portray a 19th - century itinerant artist instructing students in an art salon typical of the time period.

During a four - year excavation of an Etruscan well at the ancient Italian settlement of Cetamura del Chianti, a team led by a Florida State University archaeologist and art historian unearthed artifacts spanning more than 15 centuries of Etruscan, Roman and medieval civilization in Tuscany.

In the ninth century A.D. Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta discovered this effect, which Austrian - British art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich rediscovered in the 20th century.

English landscape painter JMW Turner, commonly exalted as «the painter of light», was one of the great artists of the 19th century, his work considered by art historians something of a precursor to the impressionist movement.

Much of the history of Khmer society is known through bas - relief carvings of the Angkor temples (that are studied by the character and real life art historian Victor Goloubew in Samuel Ferrer's The Last Gods of Indochine) and the writings of the visiting 13th century Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan.

In a gracefully detailed interpretative narrative that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating history of the still life, a highly symbolic genre.

In clean, bright, and provocative language, a cultural critic and historian discusses trends in art, literature, music, and history over the past five centuries.

Aby M. Warburg (1866 — 1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth - century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general.

Two art historians presented «E-visitors» with virtual re-creations of 18th - century exhibitions; one used a first - person - shooter video - game engine, the other, Google Sketchup.

What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.

Beginning in early 2000, Walter Hopps (a leading curator of 20th - century art and founding director of the Menil Collection in Houston) and art historian William C. Agee began kicking around ideas for a comprehensive exhibition of Abstract Expressionist work from... Read More

The title is a clever updating of «Painting as Model,» the name of a famous 1993 book by art historian Yve - Alain Bois, sped up to the pace of the 21st century.

Art Historian, documentarian, author and editor of numerous books, including Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, vols.I & II, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt, Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, and Thornton Dial in the 21st Century.

Art historians have jostled for centuries over the issue of attributing works to Giorgione.

Performa Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth - century art and encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty - first century.

Art historian Marco Livingstone has praised Smith's «joyful embrace of glamour and prismatic colour», and pointed to his important place in 20th - century British painting.

A range of texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff, texts on both the artist's wall paintings and newest body of work by Paul Moorhouse, Twentieth - Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.

Art historian and curator Robert Storr talks about Nancy Spero, one of many of the city's most significant 20th - century artists represented at Frieze New York 2017

Art historian and curator Robert Storr talks about Frank Stella, one of many of the city's most significant 20th - century artists represented at Frieze New York 2017

The title phrase is taken from art historian George Kubler's seminal book, The Shape of Time (1962), in which the author proposes a history of «things» — including artworks — that traces connected ideas developed in temporal sequence, sometimes over centuries.

Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of 20th century art and to generating new directions for the 21st century, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation, and collaboration.

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To oversimplify Agee's compelling contention, much of early 20th - century American art history was jettisoned either because it either didn't make a good story for the press, a cohesive argument for historians, or a particularly flattering narrative for those artists who came afterward.

A range of texts about Riley's original and enduring practice grounds and contextualizes the images, including new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff, texts on both the artist's wall paintings and newest body of work by Paul Moorhouse, 20th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and a 1978 interview with Robert Kudielka, her longtime confidant and foremost critic.

Although Meyer Schapiro (1904 - 1996) was one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century, his legacy is hard to quantify.

Lines, colors, shapes are arranged in space and while at first the composition doesn't seem to stand out in any specific way, what you're in fact looking at is what art historians consider to be the very first non-objective or abstract painting of the 20th century.

Critic and art historian Donald Kuspit has ascribed the term «The Expressive Cure» to both early 20th century expressionism and to its current forms for its power to express the most profound and super-sensuous subtleties of emotion.

«The new Prada Foundation is building on a tradition that began when the collector Giuseppe Panza created a contemporary art destination in a 17th - century villa in Varese just outside of Milan,» said Emily Braun, an Italian art historian and curator.

Rasuchenberg, Stella, Spero — introducing New York Masters, a new video series for which art historian and curator Robert Storr discusses New York's art history, and the some of the city's influential twentieth century artists represented at Frieze New York 2017.

An internationally recognized art historian and museum professional, her curatorial work and writings have ranged broadly across visual art, public art, and architecture from mid-20th century to today.

Edward A Shanken is an art historian focusing on 20th - century experimental art.

As art historians reassess the development of American art during the second half of the 20th Century, Bruce Conner's important and influencial artistic contributions to American art become undeniable.

Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics presents key examples of Murakami's work alongside a rich selection of Japanese masterpieces spanning several centuries and arranged here according to concepts laid out by his mentor and foil, leading Japanese art historian Nobuo Tsuji.

Throughout the twentieth century and accelerating with the rise of conceptualism and Michael Fried's prediction of the end of art, or at least the death of painting, critics, curators, and historians have questioned the validity of the medium while artists have continued to paint.

This program is tailored to art historians with a demonstrated commitment to a curatorial career in the field of old master and nineteenth - century drawings and less than five years of full - time museum work experience.

Many of the better - known works in the first two rooms support art historian Bill Hare's observation that «throughout 20th - century Scottish art there has been a tint of French Fauvism, a stroke of German Expressionism, and a later dash of Abstract Expressionism.»

A truly unique and eccentric proposition, Strawberry Hill is the fantasy creation of Horace Walpole; a leading author, art historian and Whig politician in the 18th century.

One art historian, in response to a 1977 survey in Art News magazine about the most underrated and overrated artists of the century, nominated Wyeth for both categoriart historian, in response to a 1977 survey in Art News magazine about the most underrated and overrated artists of the century, nominated Wyeth for both categoriArt News magazine about the most underrated and overrated artists of the century, nominated Wyeth for both categories.

In her essay, Galitz draws upon the research of the art historian Robert Rosenblum, who in 1975's «Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition» expounded on the connection between the Romantic sublime of the 19th century and Abstract Expressionism.

Wagner is a celebrated historian of 19th and 20th - century French and British sculpture, and T. J. Clark is renowned for his focus on a new social history of art, concentrating especially on French Impressionism.

In celebration of the publication of Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow, art historian and biographer Laurie Wilson discusses the remarkable life and art of one of the great sculptors of the 20th century in a presentation that considers the key elements of Nevelson's work, the links between her childhood experiences and adult life as an artist, the major influences on her evolving style, the challenges she faced to be taken seriously, and the relationship between her public face and the flesh - and - blood woman.

Decades have passed since the imbalance was first raised by feminist art historians, and well over a century since the first women students were admitted into art schools.

In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.

With Professor Eric Hobsbawm, eminent historian and author of Behind The Times: The Decline and Fall of the Twentieth Century Avant - Gardes; Frances Morris, specialist in contemporary art and Art Programme Curator for the Tate Gallery of Modern Aart and Art Programme Curator for the Tate Gallery of Modern AArt Programme Curator for the Tate Gallery of Modern ArtArt.

An important flashpoint in the art historical canon of the 20th century, Post-Minimalism got its first mention by noted art historian Robert Pincus - Witten in 1971, when American artists began reacting to the Minimalist tendencies that had dominated the contemporary - art conversation of the»60s.