Sentences with phrase «modernist design history»

Martin Boyce's work creates atmospheric, sculptural art inspired by modernist design history, which it often directly quotes, writes Matthew Cain.

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The exhibition explores the history of American modernist ballet and new representations of the body through a combination of contemporary works by Mauss and historical works from the 1930s and 1940s in ballet design, the visual arts, theater, and fashion.

For example, Meandering Abstractly, curated by Dr. Galvez, argued through art historical exhibition history by evoking Alfred Barr's famous 1936 exhibition, Cubism and Abstract Art, for which he designed the image construct of a genealogical tree whose leaves were the modernist art — isms.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

Central to Crowner's practice is research into the history of 20th century abstraction and modernist design, as well as an obvious penchant for textile production.

Engaging with the history and mission of The Arts Club itself, the two - part installation will bring together McElheny's film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) and a new site - specific installation titled The Club for Modern Fashions (2013), a constructed glass pavilion into which performers and guests are invited during the lunch hour, Tuesdays through Fridays, dressed in vintage attire from the 1920s to the 1970s — decades that signify the height of a modernist imperative across the cultures of fashion, design, and architecture.

Dorothea Dietrich, a modernist art historian, academic, author, curator, and administrator, has been named Chair of the History of Art and Design Department.

The film follows the history of a particular set of Le Corbusier - inspired modernist furniture designed and produced in the Indian city of Chandigarh.

In its conversation with seminal modernist colour theory works, Eaton's photograph points to the history of the Substation and to Vancouver's unique role in West Coast modern design.

Tobias Rehberger produces atmospheric environments that play with light, space, furniture, signage and clothing inspired by Modernist art history and design classics.

Tapping into the vocabulary and history of modernist design and architecture Boyce recreates its essential components and structures and transforms them into what he calls «unstable landscapes» in which social exchange might occur.

Employing formal and textual elements that frequently contradict and alter relationships with one another, Derek Sullivan draws upon overlapping histories of modernist design, abstraction and conceptual art to unsettle notions of meaning and authorship.