Sentences with phrase «from high modernism»

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For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Of course the response is condemned as a philistine reaction against today's so - called high culture, which has, for the most part, descended into a self - indulgent and transgressive vulgarity far removed from the panache and imagination of an earlier modernism.

Samplers and blanket chests take up residence next to luminous paintings from the Hudson River School and works of high Modernism by the likes of Georgia O'Keeffe.

High modernism can overemphasize autonomy and art's separation from the world.

These include works by Southern artists and superb photography from the era that demonstrate profound contributions to the development of American Modernism,» said Rand Suffolk, the High's Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. director.

[13] Jean - François Lyotard, in Frederic Jameson's analysis, does not hold that there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection at the High Museum afforded Atlanta audiences rare glimpses into the formative years of European modernism.

As a postscript, «High Times, Hard Times» — a quirky survey of abstraction from those same years — further explores the conundrum of art after Modernism.

1989 Black Art — Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African — American Art, Dallas Museum of Art, TX; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Forerunners and Newcomers: Houston's Leading African American Artists, Art Gallery, University of Houston, Clearlake, TX Messages from the South, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX The Private Eye: Selected Works from Collections of the Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX

[45] Postmodernism emerges from a «generational refusal of the categorical certainties of high modernism.»

[8] Jean - François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern stage radically different from the period of high modernism; instead, postmodern discontent with this or that high modernist style is part of the experimentation of high modernism, giving birth to new modernisms.

Dealing largely in the secondary market, Jonathan Boos specializes in American paintings, drawings, and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries with a particular focus on works of the highest quality from the Ashcan School, Modernism (including the Stieglitz Group), Realism, and the post-war period.

Brown learnt from early modernism the visual power of intense, expansive high - pitched color.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

Not afraid to gather inspiration from sources such as Brazilian folk arts and decoration, Milhazes embraces these «low» art influences and balances them with the high - minded modernism that was brought to Latin America by an earlier generation of artists such Helio Oticica and Tarsila do Amaral.

Appropriately, for an artist whose career has taken him from Scotland to England, from England to the Netherlands and Belgium, and then to California, where he is now, these works capture simultaneously something of the weighty confidence of European high Modernism, northern English phlegm and late - twentieth - century West Coast lassitude.

After its debut in Chicago, John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism will travel to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, where it will be on view from June 26 through September 11, 2011.

Koetje includes many references to high modernism in her paintings, from uninflected geometric forms to collage - like compositions that evoke the colorful and hard - edged arrangements of Stuart Davis» jazz - infused paintings.

Though art school has certainly evolved from there (with a relationship to painting in general that is worthy of debate in its own right) much of its structure and divisions are based on ideas put forth by individuals religiously committed to the highest ideals of utopian modernism.

On the other wall from Lasker's works hang those of Swiss - born Olivier Mosset, who practises an ironical and exhausted high modernism, painting flat and uninflected grids and cruciform shapes vaguely reminiscent of paintings by Mondrian or Malevich.

From the viewpoint of high modernism, kitsch denies authentic experience in favor of melodramatic thrills.