Sentences with phrase «death as a touchstone»

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Since his death he has become a touchstone for contemporary artists such as Dan Flavin, who made his own «monuments» to Tatlin in a famous series of fluorescent light tubes.

It seems that at this time Johns had come, as artists tend to do, to brood on sex, death and religion, those touchstones of human existence.

Rubinstein notes that the only artist who figures in both the «Provisional Painting» essays and Reinventing Abstraction is Mary Heilmann, but another shared touchstone for the two groups is Philip Guston, whose life intersects with the lives of many of the artists in this show, 1 and whose death in 1980 marks the beginning of the decade in question (As Rubinstein quotes Terry Winters: «in a way, the»80s began with Guston.»)