Sentences with phrase «modernist practices challenge»

Through the montage of fragmentation of different natures, episodes, moments and brief shots, Der siebente Kontinent's first - generation modernist practices challenge the illusionism of classical narrative cinema and refuse the psychological elucidation of characters.

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Students are challenged to contextualize their modernist vision of a key piece of global history, leveraging 21st century critical thinking practices.

Kamrooz Aram, a Brooklyn - based artist whose works often challenge a modernist disdain for decoration, shares his thoughts on ornament and its complex relationship to modernist painting and exhibition design as demonstrated in his own varied practice in which painting, collage, sculpture, and the art of display operate as equals.

In short, Serra is among a significant group of artists whose transformative work irrevocably changed the practice and definition of modernist drawing, and challenged drawing's role in the traditional hierarchy of media.

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

Kim - Cohen's theory of an «expanded sonic practice» transposes Krauss» argument from her famous essay «Sculpture in the Expanded Field» into the register of sound art. 8 In that essay (and elsewhere), Krauss argues that the expanded situation of sculpture (meaning minimalist works, earthworks, installations and such) challenges the Modernist account of the artwork — perhaps epitomized in Clement Greenberg's famous essay, «Modernist Painting.»