Sentences with phrase «contemporary radical critiques»

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In the catalogue for «Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,» currently at NYU's Grey Art Gallery, curator Naomi Beckwith describes Mythic Being as «a seminal work of self - fashioning that both posited and critiqued models of gender and racial subjectivity.»

These early works were radical and edgy, often challenging the role of women in satirical critiques of contemporary society.

Obviously, the answer is different for each artist and each context, but one can usefully ask whether the intervention represents an homage, or a critique of the context; whether the contemporary work points to continuities of concern or radical disjunctures, that in turn produce new understandings of both the historical and the contemporary.