Sentences with phrase «contingent upon the tradition»

Adam's work first debuted at the Hole in «Not a Painting», a group show that looked at paintings made without paint; essentially wall works made from everything but paint that referred to painting or were contingent upon the tradition of painting for their logic.

Not exact matches

The ground being contested was not merely that of cultural value, but of how value was to be defined: as contingent upon historical tradition, and therefore concentric and centripetal, or as linear, directional, conforming to measure; invested in the dynamic of supercession by what Eliot called «the supervention of novelty».