Sentences with phrase «perceived role of the artist»

This subversion of the perceived role of the artist shows Graham undermining the popular mythology of the artist and highlighted the constructed nature of identity, while also being a warm tribute to «amateur» art.

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Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Rosemary is like the other artists shown here, is questioning the role of art and our aesthetic ideals, the disfigurement and destruction points to a new understand - ing of what we perceive to be good and true.?

In 1937, on a trip to Paris he sees Picasso's Guernica which moves him to perceive an artist's role as an agent of change.

Negotiating the politics of taste, kitsch, fine art and the everyday, Lavier's persistent questioning of the world around us and the role of the artist in it draws attention to the way in which art and its values are perceived and accepted.

Through 57 photographs by artists including Iwan Baan and Julius Sherman, the show suggests that by preserving and perceiving architecture, great photographers can play a role in the construction of an icon.

Dan Graham, (born March 31, 1942, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.), American artist whose work addressed such notions as the dual role of the viewer (or audience) as both perceiver and perceived.