Sentences with phrase «essentialist aura»

Purity, another key modernist mark espoused by the critic - theorist Clement Greenberg, is also travestied as Vaisman deflates the spiritual, essentialist aura associated with reductive abstraction (as in the art of Barnett Newman or Robert Ryman) and instead makes reference to mass production, commodity fetishism, and the problem of representation in the postmodern, post-industrial arena.