Sentences with phrase «medium against its critics»
His project of bringing painting up to date consists not least in positioning this good old medium against its critics and supporters alike.
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Even as arguments against modernism's supposed transcendence of daily life were issued by a host of global players — Hélio Oiticica and the tropicália movement in Brazil, Guy Debord and the Situationist International in France, the Art Workers» Coalition and early land art in the us — many influential curators and critics doubled down, most notably Michael Fried in his 1967 essay «Art and Objecthood», a defence of medium specificity and the priority of immediacy and opticality.