Sentences with phrase «influential cultural critics»

But its roots are traceable to the end of the 19th century when influential cultural critics - Matthew Arnold chief among them - drew critical attention to deep concordances between religion and art with their predictions that, in Arnold's famous phrase, «most of what now passes with us for religion will be replaced by poetry.»

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An opportunity to hear from influential artists, critics and cultural figures, the 2016 series finds Eileen Myles, Jacolby Satterwhite, Turner Prize - winning artist Mark Leckey, and Thomas Demand among its speakers.

He became a cultural hero because of his influential writings as an art critic, his work as an arts organizer, and his role as spokesman for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance and mid - twentieth century.

In 1968, Ron Clark, at the age of 25, established in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art an independent study program (known as the ISP or sometimes the Whitney ISP), which helped start the careers of artists, critics, and curators including Jenny Holzer, Andrea Fraser, Julian Schnabel, Kathryn Bigelow, Roberta Smith, and Félix González - Torres, as well as many other well - known and influential cultural producers.