Sentences with phrase «high art modernism»

Over time, language - based conceptualism became his primary concern, as notions of high art modernism gave way to the fraught cultural atmosphere of the time — one profoundly affected by AIDS...

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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.»

Like the writers, painters, musicians, and philosophers of Romanticism and Modernism that influence, challenge, and comfort him, my artist friend holds a very high view of art.

One sees an emphasis on European art that may surprise visitors expecting a paean to American high Modernism.

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

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Meanwhile, in the high temple of modernism ---- New York's Museum of Modern Art ---- curator and past New American Paintings juror Laura Hoptman has just opened The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World.

I left at 5 because I wanted to get home to write about the exhibition of Josef Albers Paintings on Paper, an exhibition at the Morgan Library closing this weekend — in that decision were multiple ironies, that I was leaving a fashionable art event inimical to painting in order to write about an artist who in fact I had always seen as didactic in a way that could be seen as part of the repressive politics of high modernism which contributed to my move towards feminism as a young artist.

Shedding light on a rarely examined topic in the history of modernism, the major exhibition «Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915 - 1950» (Feb. 12 through May 7, 2017) at the High Museum of Art will uncover how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American aArt, 1915 - 1950» (Feb. 12 through May 7, 2017) at the High Museum of Art will uncover how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American aArt will uncover how experiences of rural life fundamentally changed the direction of American artart.

Appropriately enough, Lawrence's mix of high and low has its roots in a tamer, all - too - earnest Modernism, a uniquely American art.

When Gates was making them, he was reflecting not only on his father's tar kettle but also on the abstract painting of Jasper Johns and others, art considered the high - water mark of American modernism.

Meanwhile, in the high temple of modernism — New York's Museum of Modern Art — curator and past New American Paintings juror Laura Hoptman has just opened The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World.

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.

[40] Although to presuppose that modernism stands for «high art» only, and is in any way certain as to what constitutes «high» art is to profoundly and basically misunderstand 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.

One compact definition offered is that while post-modernism acts in rejection of modernism's grand narratives of artistic direction, and to eradicate the boundaries between high and low forms of art, to disrupt genre and its conventions with collision, collage and fragmentation.

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The Boston Globe: Celebrating High Modernism while Exposing its Flaws The Arts Fuse: The Way We Live Now — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art, An Interview with James Voorhies Harvard Crimson: Carpenter Center's Exhibition Recalls «The Way We Live Now»

Since the turn of the century, cultural connections between artists of the major European cities had become extremely active as they strove to create an art form equal to the high aspirations of modernism.

Art Spiegelman on storytelling, modernism, wormholes, loopholes, and the boundaries that still separate high and low.

Taken together, these many approaches to art represented a wholesale rejection of the tenets of modernism — e.g., its optical formalism, high seriousness, utopianism, social detachment, invocation of the subconscious, and elitism — and marked the beginning of a new era in art.

Of all the art - historical insurgencies against the high ideals of Modernism, then, few seem so radical or so far - reaching in their ambition to turn the tables as the Centre Georges Pompidou's summer 1996 exhibition «L'Informe: mode d'emploi» (The formless: instructions for use).

Donald is fascinated by the way in which this system of values in the world of decoy making and collecting (still vital today, in spite of the anachronism of duck hunting) echoes so directly that of the art world — while the art world (in spite of claims that we are beyond modernism with its distinctions between high and low culture) would have nothing of such objects.

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«One way of understanding the relation of the terms «modern,» «modernity,» and «modernism» is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Adam Pendleton has been included in significant exhibitions in America and Europe including the Palais de Tokyo's La Triennale (2012), where his video installation BAND was presented following its premiere at The Kitchen, New York (2010); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York (2012); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, ICA, London (2007); Resistance Is, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem (2005 - 06); and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005).

Other important exhibitions include Adventure of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 — 2015 (2015), Whitechapel Gallery, London; The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, 2014; Love Story - Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus and Winter Palace, Vienna, Austria, 2014; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2014; Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, 2014; We Love Video This Summer, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China, 2014; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2013); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Frequency, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York (2005 - 06); and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005).

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.

Best known for her exquisite, colorful paintings full of references as diverse as folk art, Carnival decorations, sixties psychedelia, jewelry, embroidery, colonial Baroque imagery, and high Modernism, Milhazes has recently been diversifying her art practice through her exploration of prints and collage, theatrical sets, site - specific public installations and design work including fabric and tapestry.

Clement Greenberg, at the height of his influence, argued that only abstraction could preserve the integrity of high art for modernism.

Although Liberman studied art during a time of major developments in high modernism, his conservative art education focused primarily on earlier periods of art.

In comparison, the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press, 2004) focuses more on the theoretical than on the political implications of this transitional period between high modernism and postmodernism, when the United States overthrew the shackles of European dominance and became a world - class art power.

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»).

High Modernism keeps appearing and reappearing and is continually taking on new meaning and escalating Modernism as an art form that is critical of itself.

Pendleton has been included in significant exhibitions in America and Europe, including Love Story — The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna (2014); La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York (2012); Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); The Generational: Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2010); Afro - Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool (2010); Manifesta 7, Trentino - South Tyrol, Italy (2008); After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2008); Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008); Manifesto Marathon, The Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2007); Performa 07, New York (2007); Talk Show, ICA, London (2007); Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Frequency, The Studio Museum of Harlem (2005 — 06); and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since the 1970s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2005).

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.

«Abstraction in the visual arts has often been misunderstood through the lens of the historical avant - garde and high modernism, whose utopian ideals of universality and humanism were intertwined with the totalizing ambitions of the social and political projects of Western modernity,» said curator Acevedo - Yates.

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.

The Drug of Abstraction: An Interview with Beverly Fishman Art in America, by Jason Stopa February 2017 The Drug Administration: Beverly Fishman talks High Modernism and Big Pharma Artcritical, by Leslie Wayne March 2017

The High Museum of Art will host «John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,» the first major comprehensive exhibition addressing John Marin's (1870 — 1953) modernist achievements in the watercolor medium.