Sentences with phrase «modernist dialectic»

The publication will also include an essay on Kelly's singular contribution to the modernist dialectic by Benjamin Buchloh, professor of Art History at Barnard College.

Post-Painterly Abstraction is generally seen as continuing the Modernist dialectic of self - criticism.

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Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.

«The entire dialectic of modernist painting from Manet to present is at play in Stella's work.»

Graham's influence was disseminated further through his seminal text, Systems and Dialectics of Art (1937), which affirmed the American modernist belief about art — that it is a creative process of abstraction, it is a form of communication independent of any imitation, and it reveals the unknown.

The narrative of the Hegelian dialectic, which is the conceptual basis for this process of negation, has come to a standstill, which isn't to say that the history of art has ended, as Hegel feared - and - hoped, but only that the seemingly radical pursuit of negating gestures, having become an end in itself, is a source of objects which are as aesthetically delectable as any Modernist masterpieces.

Grid and matrix, as presented in this exhibition, form a central dialectic of modernist and postmodernist culture.