Sentences with phrase «of modern art history»

It is a singular and enjoyable exhibition; a fat slice of modern art history.
We can see the passage of modern art history in these works, constructed from the foundation of the past.
In her catalogue essay, Lauf wrote that the show «proposes that carpets function in a continuum of modern art history as a discrete form that is accelerating in use and application.»
Unlike exhibitions that examine artist carpets through an ethnographic lens detached from the world of art, Wall to Wall proposes that these carpets function in a continuum of modern art history as a critical form that is accelerating in use and application.
When the art world was desperately searching for new ideas, Johns stood up and ventured outside the comfort of the established abstract style, introducing his flags and maps that ultimately altered the course of modern art history.
Benedict's work often engages in dialogue with acknowledged masters of modern art history.
Easily passing as one of the most innovative artists emerging from the neo avant - garde period, Yves Klein was a French mastermind who wrote out some very interesting and exciting pages of modern art history.
And if you go beyond the art world gossip and look at the art, as Brett Gorvy does, «' You can see the whole of modern art history unfolding,» he said.
His early pure abstract paintings, celebrated female depictions and mature landscape pieces — all these works represent what can easily be classified as true milestones of modern art history and are a clear indicator of just how vital the work of Willem de Kooning truly was.
They and the quietly attentive crowd were rewarded with a rapid - fire but softly spoken seminar by Obrist, who was prodded by succinct questions from the museum's director, Richard Armstrong, and chief curator, Nancy Spector, on the forgotten history of curating as both intellectual discipline and experimental art form, indeed as the primary object of a modern art history yet to be written.
To this day, the Arte Povera movement remains one of the most debated chapters of modern art history.
Content: A facsimile of a drawing by Tal R. Texts by David Neuman, Director of Magasin 3, John C. Welchman, Professor of Modern Art History at University of California, San Diego, and interviews with curators Richard Julin and Sara Källström.
At Freight + Volume, Loren Munk presented his overstuffed, dazzlingly colored and ceaselessly inventive text - based canvases charting the complex byways of modern art history.
Unlike Warhol's films, Sietsema's may have another level, a plane on which his fake botanicals form an allegory of modern art history.
Through the years, R.B. Kitaj has proved not only great craftsmanship, exquisite concepts, and exceptional social and political agenda, but rather the constant effort of finding new means of expressing, surpassing and articulating over his own artistic and life position which certainly makes him one of the most important figures of modern art history.
Instrumental in getting Bourgeois for Tate Modern's first Turbine Hall commission, in 2007 Morris curated the museum's definitive retrospective that reflected her intimate feel for (and friendship with) this artist, and put her at the heart of modern art history.
The friendship between Norman Rockwell and Grandma Moses remains one of the most intriguing and charming stories of modern art history.
The museum's new wing — the Switch House — expresses the dynamic energy of modern art history, from a dark expressionist basement to its Futuristic pyramidal heights.
FINALLY CONQUER that embarrassing IGNORANCE of modern art history by understanding which artistic movement was «the last stand of the isolated artistic self in a climate of conformity and increasing objectification created by techniques of mass control.»
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