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.
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.
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.
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 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.»