Sentences with phrase «radical gestures in»

She made radical gestures in response to the history of dance, and practiced in unconventional spaces without any music.

At once a political epic and a radical gesture in personal filmmaking, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic is an unexpected, unlikely triumph.

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In any case, as the 90s closed this rock - bohemian leftism increasingly appeared as little but a confused incoherence that took hyper - radical political gestures for granted (sort of as another mode of transgressionism — Chomskyite Marxism for me, Marilyn Manson for thee, piercings for both of us) even as its actual materialism and actual political impotence / apathy became ever - more pronounced.

He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.

From subtle gestures of reclamation to more radical remodelling, the works in Unsettlement strive to confuse architecture's functionality, undermine its authority or explode its mythologies.

«The works in Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974 — 1989 are radical gestures.

Founded in 1977 as a radical gesture by art historian and curator Marcia Tucker, the New Museum began as an alternative model of museum practice.

By the time I did the last show at Alan's in 1969, I realized that I had to do something drastically radical from the relative gesture of my wrist, which was becoming too habitual.

In a New York art scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism, with its emphasis on ineffable, sublime themes and maximum emotion, to depict something as humdrum as a flag was a radical gesture.

His most radical gesture was the creation of the 90 cans of Artist's shit with the content of 30 grams that was sold for the current price of gold (30 gr of something in the can is equal to the 30 gr of gold, which was approximately 37 dollars).

A «Radical Gesture» The Studio Museum was founded in 1968 to provide a venue for artists of African descent to exhibit their work when opportunities to do so at mainstream institutions were few.

«The museum was a radical gesture to address the exclusion of black artists from the canonical presentation of art history,» Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, told the New York Times.

Read about Italian - born artist Monica Bonvicini who refuses to be confined by the architecture of her surroundings, but offers in her radical gestures, her own menu of obstacles.

Not only does Rauschenberg demonstrate his irresistible formal sensibilities in the body of the painting by using socks and doilies as another artist might use oil and acrylic, but having strutted his formal stuff satisfactorily, the artist crowns his efforts with a mocking, stuffed bird, as if to drive home the casual ease with which this radical gesture was achieved.

Combined with his interest in American abstract painting this research lead him in the 70s to make a series of particularly ambitious paintings, not only by their unusual format in France at the time (two by three meters, two by six meters), but also by the almost total withdrawal of the gesture of the artist, an indirect inscription of the pictorial surface, a minimalistic and radical process that influenced, among others, Martin Barré.

His work could be described as radical minimalism in painting, while his monochromatic paintings are reduced to canvases with carefully executed gesture cuts.

Known for embodying the radical power of art not only in the grandest of gestures but also in the most misshapen, haphazard, collective, bric - a-brac of even the smallest of chance statements, BHQF rose to national and international prominence with recognition of the Brucenniel.

Despite Whitten's frequent invocation of political figures and events in the titles of his paintings, his work has remained resolutely abstract since the 1970s, when he began radical experiments to relinquish compositional control, eliminating the hand, gesture, and paintbrush itself.

Many of his most famous images feature African Americans, a gesture that in itself can be considered radical within a predominantly white, western art historical context.

The narrative of the Hegelian dialectic, which is the conceptual basis for this process of negation, has come to a standstill, which isn't to say that the history of art has ended, as Hegel feared - and - hoped, but only that the seemingly radical pursuit of negating gestures, having become an end in itself, is a source of objects which are as aesthetically delectable as any Modernist masterpieces.

The only painter in the founding group, Klein was a highly influential artist whose radical techniques and conceptual gestures laid the groundwork for much of the art of the 1960s and»70s.

If Boltanski and Chiapello's contention is right — that the challenge to bourgeois security posed by the «artistic» demands of the»60s for radical liberation and authenticity has proved uniquely compatible with a new phase of capitalism, a capitalism through which individuals are embedded within networks that turn these very freedoms into competitive mechanisms — then in a very real way, every creative gesture provides new opportunities for future exploitation.

The only painter in the founding group, Klein was a highly influential artist whose radical techniques and conceptual gestures laid the groundwork for much of the art of...

These seemingly internecine art world problems are mirrored in culture at large, where branded feminism appears in the guise of once - radical gestures: from Lynda Benglis's phallic woman, to the indiscriminate schlong - wagging of Miley Cyrus; from the mantra «the personal is political,» to countless «lady blogs» microscopping the daily minutiae of celebrities through a «feminist lens»; from the fight for equal pay to the «Lean - In» ideology espoused by Facebook executive and self - styled activist Sheryl Sandberg, which rethinks «revolution» as a greasy ladder that can be scaled through technocratic efficiency and a 24/7 work ethiin culture at large, where branded feminism appears in the guise of once - radical gestures: from Lynda Benglis's phallic woman, to the indiscriminate schlong - wagging of Miley Cyrus; from the mantra «the personal is political,» to countless «lady blogs» microscopping the daily minutiae of celebrities through a «feminist lens»; from the fight for equal pay to the «Lean - In» ideology espoused by Facebook executive and self - styled activist Sheryl Sandberg, which rethinks «revolution» as a greasy ladder that can be scaled through technocratic efficiency and a 24/7 work ethiin the guise of once - radical gestures: from Lynda Benglis's phallic woman, to the indiscriminate schlong - wagging of Miley Cyrus; from the mantra «the personal is political,» to countless «lady blogs» microscopping the daily minutiae of celebrities through a «feminist lens»; from the fight for equal pay to the «Lean - In» ideology espoused by Facebook executive and self - styled activist Sheryl Sandberg, which rethinks «revolution» as a greasy ladder that can be scaled through technocratic efficiency and a 24/7 work ethiIn» ideology espoused by Facebook executive and self - styled activist Sheryl Sandberg, which rethinks «revolution» as a greasy ladder that can be scaled through technocratic efficiency and a 24/7 work ethic.

Another radical departure for Apple is the elimination of the «home» button in the X. It's been replaced by screen gestures, like swiping.