Saddest of all, the multinational institution of
high Modernism comes off as a dead end.
Not exact matches
Back then, abstract painting investigations were still rooted in aesthetic considerations
coming on the heels of
high modernism.
Nostalgia for the Concourse
came to mind while taking in Christian Maychack's latest exhibit at Jeff Bailey, being that so much of his work, to my eye, playfully sends up or gently skewers
high modernism.
A resolute
high Modernist, he was out of sympathy with many of the aesthetic waves that
came after the great achievements of the New York School, notably Pop («a very great disaster»), Conceptual art («scrapbook art») and postmodernism («
modernism with a sneer, a giggle,
modernism without any animating faith in the nobility and pertinence of its cultural mandate»).