Sentences with phrase «modernist avant»

In 1968, the Museum of Modern Art opened «Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage,» an expansive survey exhibition about two European modernist avant - gardes and their influence on contemporary art.

He favoured the startling and perplexing works of the high modernist avant - garde.

On the other hand, the interior environment stood in stark contrast to the locations of the modernist avant - garde, which did not «stay home», but marched out towards cultural battlefields.

In response to the Aubette décors made in 1928 by Theo Van Doesburg, Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber - Arp, the exhibition layout is organised in four sections illustrating representative concepts or movements of Modernist avant - gardes appropriated by contemporary artists.

This was precisely the period when decorative art transformed currents in the Modernist avant - garde, which had tended to be characterised by functionalism, into variations that were as glamorous as they were idiosyncratic.

Among the members of the modernist avant - garde on board were Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand, and Josep Lluís Sert.

«In a sense, the full dramatic implications of the question how to begin ever anew were first realized by the modernist avant - gardes (it is...

Not only does the exhibition offer a breathtaking leap back into the invigorating aesthetic atmosphere of the 70s, inspired by the ideas of the modernist avant garde, but it also invites us to think about ourselves in relation to the world: how much of it is really «outside» and how much is a product of our thoughts and actions.»

Trained in twentieth - century Modernist avant - garde movements, she has continued her investigations of subcultures, outsider artists, and emerging art movements with such original work as the essay «A Partial and Incomplete Oral History of the Mission School» in the BAMPFA catalog Barry McGee; the exhibition catalog Energy That Is All Around; and the introduction to Bruce Conner: The Afternoon Interviews.

Going back and forth in history, and specifically revisiting modernist avant - garde movements, has been a general concern in the art production of the last years.

Despite his fundamental importance to the development of modern art in America — where prominent exhibitions were devoted to him during his lifetime — Hofmann remains less well known in Germany and Europe as a member of the Modernist avant - garde.

1 - James Joyce: An Irish novelist and poet, Joyce was one of the most influential writers among the modernist avant - garde of the early 20th century.

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«Postmodernism» in its original use merely named a variant of that «modernist» sensibility itself, insofar as the avant - garde was perceived to have somehow survived itself.

The films of Reygadas and Dumont have their lineage within this eclectic genealogy of modernist and avant - garde methods that seek radical alternatives to naturalistic forms of psychological performance.

This modernist revolutionary's attempt to fuse the peasantry of his native Ukraine with avant - garde Russian culture under the oppressive eye of history led to much frustration and some of the greatest Soviet art ever created.

At Monoskop, a site for the study of arts, media and the humanities, there is a collection of avant - garde and modernist magazines from 1890 to 1939 available online.

A pioneer of the Korean avant - garde and part of the first generation of experimental artists to embrace innovation and modernist influences after the end of the Korean War in 1953, Seung - taek Lee has continuously engaged political and cultural themes over the course of his six - decade career.

Thanks to this research, works that have never been shown in public have been discovered and integrated into the concept, so that the exhibition provides a new perspective of the oeuvre of this avant - garde modernist, who still remains largely unknown in Germany.

Olowska's paintings, collages, and ceramics engage with traditional Polish crafts, feminism, the historical avant - garde whilst incorporating a modernist vocabulary.

Widely respected by his avant - garde contemporaries, Maurer exhibited in 1909 at Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery 291 in New York, in the 1913 New York Armory Show, and was an associate member of the modernist Salon d'Automne in Paris.

The only artist to have come out of Brancusi's studio, Noguchi had unique insights into what Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart calls «that Modernist Eden of ambiguity — where traditional craft met the avant - garde, object became indistinguishable from base, and art was life.»

Decidedly not a minimalist, he continues to ponder objects and the space they occupy in quite modernist terms that land him somewhere between the historical avant - garde and the post war New York School.

On the indexical mark in Tu m», see Rosalind E. Krauss, «Notes on the Index: Part 1,» in The Originality of the Avant - Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985), 196 — 209.

[1] Rosalind E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant - Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986).

Studying at the avant - garde Academie La Palette, Chagall met experimental poets like Apollinaire and modernist painters like Modigliani and Delaunay.

-- «Avant - Garde and Kitsch» (Partisan Review, 1939)-- «Towards a New Laocoon» (Partisan Review, 1940)-- «Abstract Art» (The Nation, 1944)-- «The Crisis of the Easel Picture» (Partisan Review, 1948)-- «American Type Painting» (Partisan Review, 1955)-- «Modernist Painting» (Voice of America lecture, 1961)-- «After Abstract Expressionism» (Art International, 1962)-- Art and Culture: Critical Essays (1961) RELATED LINKS Know Your Critics: What Did Harold Rosenberg Do?

This exhibition includes thirty oil paintings dating from 1928 to 1945, offering a comprehensive overview of the artist's evolution from a traditional landscape and still - life painter to a bold, avant - garde modernist.

A student of Neo-Plasticism, von Wiegand's work from this period demonstrates her experimentation with the technique of automatism as well as her awareness of and respect for the avant - garde abstractions of European modernists including Jean Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian.

[33] Another point of view is avant - garde and modernist artists used similar strategies and postmodernism repudiates both.

For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, artist Nick Mauss (b. 1980) presents Transmissions, a multidisciplinary work exploring the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant - garde visual arts in New York from the 1930s through»50s.

The project revisits the years 1916 - 1922 of the revolutionary cultural modernist project in the late Russian Empire and then Revolutionary Russia to reveal how the Jewish secular cultural awakening coincided, overlapped, and interconnected with the development of the Russian Avant - garde project.

BLACK AND WHITE: JAPANESE MODERN ART The austere aesthetic of traditional Zen ink painting intersects with the influence of Western modernists in a grouping of avant - garde Japanese works centered on Inoue Yuichi's large calligraphy of a character meaning «filial piety.»

Not long after the Third Reich shut down the Bauhaus, the avant - garde art school where Josef and Anni had both studied and taught, Josef was fortuitously invited to lead the art department at the newly founded Black Mountain College, the North Carolina art school that would soon become a hotbed of modernist experimentation.

Famed modernist poet Barbara Guest, a winner of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal and the best - known woman in the influential New York School of avant - garde poets, died in a Berkeley hospital Wednesday of complications from a series of strokes.

Among the Greenberg's most influential works, which he published mostly in Partisan Review, the Nation, and Commentary, are Avant - Garde and Kitsch from 1939, Towards a Newer Laocoon (1940), The Crisis of the Easel Picture (1948), Modernist Painting which was delivered initially as a radio broadcast on The Voice of America Forum Lectures: The Visual Arts (1960), After Abstract Expressionism (1962), and «American - Type» Painting (1955).

Return of the Repressed looks at how artists adopted, often at great personal risk, the styles of the early twentieth - century Russian avant - garde and other modernist styles in defiance of Soviet aesthetics.

This international, avant - garde context is reflected in the many dynamic works on view in John Storrs: Machine - Age Modernist.

Focusing on Storrs's elegant abstractions of skyscrapers, Machine - Age Modernist remains on view at the Grey Art Gallery through July 9, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that situates the artist within an international avant - garde milieu.

With their multi-hyphenated addresses; habit of changing hats as artist, curator, and art impresario; and tendency to sample from across the style spectrum, the Iranian modernists might have more in common with today's global avant - garde than the fabled New York School did.

We've mostly rejected modernist aestheticism, art for art's sake, but we've replaced it with what I sometimes call avant - garde transgressivism, transgression for transgression's sake, critique for critique's sake, change for change's sake.

Recent Work and Other Myths combines appropriated pages from The Originality of the Avant - Garde and Other Modernist Myths — a collection of 15 essays by the influential American critic Rosalind E. Krauss — and screendumps from the artist's Instagram account, where he has posted photos of discarded items he has stumbled across in the street.

Continuing in the collecting trends of the past year, Miami Beach saw an ongoing interest in the modernist, avant - garde painters of the early and mid-twentieth century, with major works on view from Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder and Marcel Duchamp (Duchamp's work was seen frequently throughout the week), likely inspired by the recent price tags attached to these artists» works, and their emerging stature as defining talents of the past century.

As a young artist O'Keeffe was influenced by the works of many artists and photographers, bridging the world of avant - garde art in Europe before World War I, such as the work of Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso, with the new modernist artists in America, such as Arthur Dove.

A main focus of the gallery has always been modernist movements of the first half of the 20th Century, notably German Expressionism and the Russian Avant - Garde.

On the importance of re-applying previous techniques, Whitten says, «I have not been interested in the modernist concept of progression, the avant - garde notion of advancing in time.

If derivative counts as an insult to modernists, postmodernists see right through the «originality of the avant - garde.»

Vassilis H» work explores the philosophy and the formalistic aspects of the Modernist Movement (Bauhaus, Russian Avant - garde) within the context of free association and re-composition.

The avant - garde critic Peter Schjeldahl rejoiced in «Koons's accurate blend of aesthetic perfect pitch and blazing sociological significance,» while Hilton Kramer, a conservative modernist, saw nothing less than a willful «desecration of art, and that is why so many people love it.»

So did modernist painter Frank Stella, playwright Edward Albee, American artist Alice Aycock, American artist Jack Youngerman, and avant - garde director and artist Robert Wilson.

«Nick Mauss: Transitions» Whitney Museum of American Art OPENS: March 16 For his first solo museum show in the United States, the artist explores the relationship between modernist ballet and the avant - garde in New York from the 1930s through the 1950s.