Sentences with phrase «grand philosophical ideas»
What is missing on the fourth floor at MoMA is precisely the yeasty, unpredictable mix of forces that in Manhattan defined the last stand of the avant - garde, the last moment when an artist, sitting alone in a studio, could believe that the tidal sweep of history had brought art to this point, that all the grand philosophical ideas, the dreams of Plato, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, were with the artists, pushing them forward.
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One of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Gerhard Richter has absorbed many ideas of several dominant movements, while remaining skeptical of all grand artistic and philosophical credos.