Sentences with phrase «polemical art»

Despite having honed an intelligent yet boisterous painting process for the last 40 - plus years, Los Angeles - based art guru Thomas Lawson is just as likely to be known as a) the dean of the prestigious School of Art at the California Institute for the Arts and (b) the talented but polemical art writer who penned the potent 1985 comeuppance of Neo-Expressionism titled «Last Exit: Painting.»

Not exact matches

In what must surely count as the most polemical passage in the entire book, Besançon even makes bold to claim that iconographers have substituted their art for true religion and even believe that their art comprehends God:

But Nietzsche easily outdoes him here, especially in his polemical essay Human, All Too Human, where he roundly declares all art false to the core:

Under the pressures of the religious struggles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the fractured church turned to the arts a embellishers of the words that had severed the Word into sectarian and polemical forms.

Far from being just another polemical rant, Art's Prospect takes us inside the heads of those who execute and market contemporary art, helping us understand what they think they are doing, and why doing it is such a profitable busineArt's Prospect takes us inside the heads of those who execute and market contemporary art, helping us understand what they think they are doing, and why doing it is such a profitable busineart, helping us understand what they think they are doing, and why doing it is such a profitable business.

The shortcoming of this brief book, perhaps inherent in the author's polemical task, is that it is negative, and to see how well Kimball conveys his own appreciations of great art a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's Prospecart a reader must look to his other works (his rich essays on Eakins and Delacroix, for instance, in his collection titled Art's ProspecArt's Prospect).

It is hard to raise sufficient polemical steam over what many may consider a nice distinction, but Peter J. Leithart's «For Useless Learning» (November 2000) embodies such a peculiarly evangelical (i.e., skewed) approach to the arts and learning that I could not let it pass without comment.

Has referentiality in art, once polemical, become an orthodoxy?

The path - breaking essay, «Some Aspects of Color and Red and Black in Particular,» and the polemical essay, «Una Stanza Per Panza,» is joined with hundreds of selections from Judd's handwritten notes and manuscripts from Judd Foundation Archives, encompassing art, architecture, design, and activism.

We admired his cool demeanor, rigorous intelligence, polemical toughness, and uncompromising belief in the importance of art.»

The «should» of Judd's essays, returning again to Bochner, demonstrates his «polemical toughness, and uncompromising belief in the importance of art.»

Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and painting as well as craft - based techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions of high art and mastery.

Much of the art is political, but not polemical.

The above communication from Ad Reinhardt to Thomas Hess encapsulates some of the cross-currents that characterized the working relationship between a leading New York School artist who was also a prolific, polemical writer, and satirical cartoonist for ARTnews, and ARTnews's influential executive editor who was also a critic supportive of Reinhardt's art along with that of the other New York School artists.

This is the complete, authorized collection of Donald Judd's early art criticism and polemical writings; it includes his landmark essay «Specific Objects» plus more than 500 contemporary art reviews he wrote on key artists and exhibitions of the 1960s.

Lapthisophon contends that these process - driven drawings, made with such unconventional media as coffee grounds, bacon fat, smoke, latex, tea, vinegar, and rosemary, are «polemical» in how they go against the grain of much contemporary art.

This exhibition examines the intertwined arts of etching and writing, from the polemical beginnings of the Etching Revival in the 1850s to its twentieth - century afterlife.

Turning its back on illusionism and allegory, this kind of art attempts to define its own universe of meanings, and in the polemical act of purifying itself from extraneously derived languages and imageries, aspires to ineffability.»

There are many artists, art groups, and collectives that are grappling with art history in diverse and interesting ways, but these kind of extreme statements reveal BHQF's strengths — polemical statements that make you want to believe them — and weaknesses — insularity that makes you wonder if they are looking at the work of other artists enough.

After returning to England in 1880 he painted a wide variety of subjects, continued with his interest in the graphic arts, and promulgated his aesthetic theories in print and in the Ten O'Clock lecture (1885); his polemical The Gentle Art of Making Enemies was published in 1890.

This exhibition, along with a polemical article, «Anti Form,» in Artforum, focused attention on the emergence of a new way of making art:

Christopher Williams and Willem de Rooij discuss whether referentiality in art, if once polemical, has become an orthodoxy and if so

Unique in its formal diversity, frequently polemical subjects, and conceptual rigor, Uklański's body of work has emerged since the mid-1990s as one of the most intriguing and original art practices of his generation.

MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN ART: THE WORLD OF BOB & ROBERTA SMITH (John Rogers, 2012, World Premiere) Bob & Roberta Smith, in reality one person called Patrick Brill, is an artist renowned for his humorous, polemical work.

What is left open by Joselit's brief and polemical text is how we might best use this diagnosis of the present possibilities and limitations for artistic production to analyze works of art themselves for, if After Art has a limitation of its own, it is in putting these provocative but abstract ideas in the service of contemporary art, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the lattart themselves for, if After Art has a limitation of its own, it is in putting these provocative but abstract ideas in the service of contemporary art, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the lattArt has a limitation of its own, it is in putting these provocative but abstract ideas in the service of contemporary art, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the lattart, rather than simply having the former represented or narrativized by the latter.

Thoroughly educated at Ruskin in Oxford, the Slade School of Art in London, the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Quinn has created throughout his three - decade - long career rich and often polemical allegorical paintings with as much intellectual weight as emotional depth.