Sentences with phrase «commentary on art history»

Seeing Mimi Lauter's work for the first time brought home to me how rare it is to see contemporary painting whose substance is rich and full - bodied but possibly inchoate, rather than style, topicality, or an arm's - length commentary on art history.

They are dialogues with society and commentaries on art history that often reference political issues, mixing high and low cultural values.

Not exact matches

Less effective as a portrait of Allende than it is as a commentary on the documentary medium itself - art as a means of resuscitating history.

Their erudite commentary on architecture, history, and art, whether standing among Roman ruins or modern art museums, along with the ability to make themselves understood in Italian, were a testament to Orangeburg, New York's Tappan Zee High School.

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There are books on shelves, in file containers along the stairway, piled in laundry baskets — and they reflect the range of his interests: Painting in the Twentieth Century, Rebels against Slavery, The End of Blackness, Invisible Man, Theories of Modern Art, African Art, Against Race, A Rumor of Revolt, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, The Salt Eaters, Of Grammatology, Black Empire, A Commentary on Heidegger's «Being and Time», The Future of the Race.

And naturally the means of illusion, as well as the idea of a commentary on illusion, belong to a critical history of art.

Unlike the iconic painters of the day — the Pollocks, Newmans, Rothkos, and Reinhardts — who were intent on changing the course of art history, she eschewed theory and resisted the urge to contrive elegant commentary to satisfy art critics.

In this interview filmed in 2013 at McCullough's Martha's Vineyard home, the author of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris provides enlightening commentary on American art and history as seen through the lens of works included in a 2013 — 2014 Corcoran installation titled American Journeys: Visions of Place.

The Grundy Art Gallery recently identified three core areas for future acquisitions: popular culture and commentary on the language of spectacle; works tracing the history of exhibitions at the Gallery or related to Blackpool; and a new strand of light - based artworks.

Combining images from different sources, Sikander creates densely layered paintings that transcend traditional notions of narrative to combine «overlapping commentaries on lived experiences, art history, and pop culture.»

A collection of readings, thoughts, and commentary on the arts, history, and culture, every post is packed with quotes, attributions, and links — both to her own previous posts as well as other sources where readers can purchase the book being quoted or read more deeply about a subject.

This exhibition is the final episode in the artist's series on Colonial America, his successful combining of art, history, and sometimes wicked but always fun - to - read commentary on people — Europeans adventurers and explorers, North American Indians, freed and enslaved blacks, and ravishing women who love, laugh, and die on the banks of the Hudson from Manhattan up to Lake Oneida.

Marshall is a prominent history painter who ensures that the presence of African Americans in contemporary art will be more prevalent in museums than it has been throughout history, and his work contains important commentary on social structures.