Sentences with phrase «early land art»

The exhibition opens with Jean Tinguely's fantastic early Land Art piece Study for the End of the World no. 2 from 1962.

The museum also stages recreations of original works from early land art exhibitions, includingthe British artist Richard Long's A Line the Same Length as a Straight Walk from the Bottom to the Top of Silbury Hill (1970/2012)-- a large white clay spiral drawn on the gallery floor that corresponds to the number of steps Long took to reach the top of the largest prehistoric man - made hill in England.

Even as arguments against modernism's supposed transcendence of daily life were issued by a host of global players — Hélio Oiticica and the tropicália movement in Brazil, Guy Debord and the Situationist International in France, the Art Workers» Coalition and early land art in the us — many influential curators and critics doubled down, most notably Michael Fried in his 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», a defence of medium specificity and the priority of immediacy and opticality.

Not exact matches

Crawford's biography of T. S. Eliot's early years depicts art and criticism living uncomfortably together between the 1915 publication of Prufrock and Other Poems and the 1922 detonation of that literary atom bomb, The Waste Land.

While the film is still in pre-production, we landed some early art for Sebastian Silva's Magic, Magic, which features the impressive...

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 19Land Art unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 197Art unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 19land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 197art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s.

The latter's Land Art was shown by Lisson in the gallery's early days in the 1970s, so this show of standing stones of Cornwall slate, expressive walk works made from mud, text pieces and landscape photographs represent something of a homecoming for the Academician.

Falls also acknowledges that his work connects with a lot of the land art that emerged from the early»70s, citing the importance for him of Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson, but adding that their work was also «very assertive and not compassionate for the viewer», which Falls feels can be more than a little intimidating.

The installation will provide a deeper look into Dwan Gallery's operations, highlighting its evolution as it shifted from a West Coast venue for established New York and European avant - garde artists in the early 1960s to become one of New York's leading galleries devoted to new movements including minimalism, conceptual art, and land art in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Various Small Fires presents LIFE: On The Moon, a group exhibition tracing the immediate influence and lasting significance of the epochal July 20, 1969 moon landing on the early development of Land Art, represented by Robert Smithson and Michelle Stuart, in dialogue with recent works by Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, and Tavares Strachan... read more

«Peter Doig, Early Works», Michael Werner Gallery, London, March 20 - May 31; «No Foreign Lands», Montreal Museum of Arts, to June 8

Following the themes in the related exhibition, In the Library: Selections from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives provides a deeper look into the Dwan Gallery's evolution from a West Coast outpost for established New York and European avant - garde artists in the early 1960s to one of New York's leading galleries devoted to minimalism, conceptual art, and land art in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Some of the earliest depictions of African individuals in Western art, their stories are now «lost to the winds of history» and it is a meditation on diaspora and the realities of an imagined promised land.

and her early contributions to process - based sculpture and Land Art.

Following on from exhibitions of the work of Garth Evans (2013, curated by Richard Deacon) and Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 - 79 (2014), which between them covered the period from 1959 - 1982, where sculptural practice was very much ephemeral, conceptual, or based on performance, this current exhibition looks at the early 80s, a time when sculptural practice in the UK went back into the workshops to experiment with a completely new approach of assembling.

Born in Remscheid in the German area of Bergisches Land [1], Tillmans had a relatively early introduction to serious art.

Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960's and early 1970's.

Earlier this year we had the chance to travel in person to see Spiral Jetty, the seminal work of land art created by Robert Smithson in the bed of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

The aesthetics of these early works borrows from Minimal, Conceptual, as well as Land art, and the regulars from MAMCO will certainly find an echo to works from Dennis Oppenheim, Franz Erhard Walther, or even Victor Burgin.

The exhibition explores the foregrounding of mistakes and missteps in contemporary art practices and features works by Anne Carson, Choi Dachal, Frank Heath, Owen Land, Rotem Linial, James Merrill, Alice Miceli, Jenny Perlin, Aki Sasamoto, as well as an ikat - dyed silk suzani from the Middle East made in the early twenties.

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

No Foreign Lands, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK; Musée des Beaux - Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Early Works, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Cuban - born American artist Ana Mendieta brilliantly synthesized and advanced emergent art forms of the early 1970s, such as performance, body art, land art and film, with personal and political explorations of the gendered and raced body, ancient cultures and belonging.

So beginning early next month, Mr. Horowitz will unveil «Your Land / My Land: Election» 12,» a kind of high - Minimalist electoral forum that will be installed at art institutions in bright red, bright blue and less - decided states across the country.

They didn't house their collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, but they gave it some of its most important early acquisitions and landed it an ambitious director, James Johnson Sweeney, who had previously run New York's Guggenheim Museum.

Richard Long (born 1945 in Bristol, UK) is an English representative of Land Art, photography, and sculpture — one of his most famous early works being A Line Made By Walking (1967).

• Introduction • Training and Early Works • Land Art: Installations and Earthworks • Writings • Controversy

The solo show includes 50 works ranging from 1968 to the present that encompass a range of mediums and highlight her early contributions to process - based sculpture and Land Art along with her use of nontraditional natural materials and her passion for photography.

«I was on the art track from an early age,» says Ella Kruglyanskaya, who grew up in Riga, Latvia, and landed in America in 1995.

«Visionary Land: A retrospective of Nancy Holt's early work at the Tufts Art Gallery shows how she re-imagines earth, sun and sky,» Tufts Now, Gail Bambrick January 19, 2012

Although Katrin is best known for large - scale paintings, her truly contemporary artistic practice originates in an early engagement with Performance Art with her project Dust of Galaxy, in 2002 or Land Art presented through Energy Flow in 2004.

Coming out of the conceptual art movement, Oppenheim's early work was associated both with performance / body art and the early earthworks / land art movement.

Like Graham, Long is one of a group of artists shown by Nicholas Logsdail in the earliest years of the Lisson Gallery and his legacy as a pioneering conceptualist and one of the originators of the Land Art movement is especially relevant now, as evidenced by the recent re-staging of «When Attitudes Become Forms» at the Fondazione Prada.

Performance, conceptual and land art have involved maps since the early work of Robert Smithson, Dennis Oppenheim and Richard Long.

land art or earthworks, art form developed in the late 1960s and early 70s by Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, Michael Heizer, and others, in which the artist employs the elements of nature in situ or rearranges the landscape with earthmoving equipment.

While at the Whitney Program in 1988 Burr met art dealer Colin de Land and began a friendship that would lead to Burr joining de Land's seminal gallery, American Fine Arts, Co, in the early 90's.

Interestingly, the attempt to claim a natural phenomenon as one's own work brings Lucier's «compositional» gesture closer to the practice of conceptual and land art, resonating with Hans Haacke's early «systems» works, than to typical musical composition.

He landed at the Chester Art College where he studied photography, film and graphic design under Jack Straw, who shaped Young's early development.

In the early»90s she participated in shows at The Drawing Center, New York, curated by Ann Philbin; Art in General, New York, curated by Holly Block; and American Fine Arts, New York, with Colin De Land, among many others.

Best known for his radical land art of the 1960s and early 1970s, Smithson is now widely recognised as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

His early work was categorically different to the land art projects that were under way in America in the same period (Robert Smithson, Hans Haacke, James Turrell).