Sentences with phrase «relational esthetics»

After a long period when painting was frequently dismissed as a complacent, indulgent, narcissistic medium in contrast to other modes (conceptual art, relational esthetics, etc.) that were supposed to be more faithful to the skeptical, oppositional character of historic avant - gardes, some painters have been rediscovering doubt as an aspect of their medium, reclaiming Cézanne as an ancestor and nominating as their tutelary spirit Samuel Beckett, a writer who favored paintings where he found «no trace of one - upmanship, either in excess or deficiency.

What I encountered at MoMA is a storied example of the artistic mode known as relational esthetics, in which a work of art is meant to spur social interaction.

One of the youngest guests, however, perhaps best summed up the unsettling sensation of experiencing relational esthetics when removed from the original, socially loaded context.

Eteam is the husband - and - wife collaborative of Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, computer / internet / video / performance artists who employ a hybrid of land art and relational esthetics.

Other work feels dragged into relational esthetics against its will, like text art by Lawrence Weiner.

Naturally the biggest museum blockbusters looked the most bloated, including the Guggenheim's sorry progression of Richard Prince, Cai Guo - Qiang, and «relational esthetics,» plus Murakami in Brooklyn.

Slick and brightly colored, it introduced a group show about something warm, cuddly, and open called relational esthetics, after Nicolas Bourriaud.

Others here include Christian Boltanski with his relational esthetics and dark cabinet of wonders.

Is relational esthetics just a fancy term for a family vacation at Disney World?

Works like these, under the slippery label of relational esthetics, turn acts of generosity into a theme park, with the artist the main attraction.

Either way, he and Francis Alÿs turn relational esthetics into toy stores, ego trips, and «slacker art.»

MoMA sees only abandonment, but she saw her late work as therapy, and it looks ahead to the faddish «relational esthetics» of Rirkrit Tiravanija and others today.

How did participatory art and «relational esthetics» become installations by celebrity artists?

The whole show gets a little too polite, almost like Rirkrit Tiravanija and his «relational esthetics» after all.

Art like this gives new meaning to «relational esthetics,» as in the show «Take Me (I'm Yours).»