Sentences with phrase «old ritual objects»

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The exhibition, which will now travel to Aspen, was restrained and ebullient, with selections from a few salient series tracing an evolution in his use of specific materials as hand - and - machine - tools, wood, bone, fabric, and hair in witty, emotional objects recalling old - timey toys, ritual charms and artifacts, totems of social experience, and items of ordinary household magic.

Whitney Museum of American Art: «Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama — Manhattan, 1970 - 1980» (closes on Sunday) Four decades ago, performance art was young, funky and clunky, beyond modernism, or maybe perversely beneath it, meant to reflect a world in which materials were transient, old models useless and values shifty.