Sentences with phrase «shifting meaning of art»

More recently, artists such as Victor Burgin and Judy Fiskin (American, born 1945) have pushed the narrative possibilities of the medium still further, using video to address the shifting meaning of art at different times and in different contexts.

Not exact matches

While proclaiming its place among the great canvases and grand story of American art, the work's repurposing of distinctly marginal and vernacular materials effects a majestic critical shift in how the structures of society, meaning and beauty in the streets — and in art history — might be seen.

For me, this means a need to redefine what is iconic, shifting from an art historical to an algorithmic framework, or perhaps a combination of both.

Poet and critic Fred Moten also offers a lyrical meditation on the shifting meanings of blue and black across art, poetry, music, and history.

This is a bold statement coming from one of the preeminent photographic art galleries in Chelsea, and, yet, one that is capturing the interest of many artists and curators who are becoming interested in the dissemination of the photograph and how its meaning has shifted in recent years.

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At the same time, the meaning of the work shifts away from any art historical referent because it is made out of the emphatically «non-art» materials of common household objects.

By an association of ideas, and by a metaphorical shift of meaning, the exhibition concept also includes the possibility for space to become, within contemporary art, a relational, anthropological, architectural, astronomical, poetic, oneiric, naturalistic place.

A radical shift took place in art during the 1960s, when artists prioritised objectivity and objectifiable qualities as a means of en - couraging social participation and making art accessible to all.

Inspired by cybernetics and communication theory, Willats has utilized architecture, photography, and abstraction to explore how the meaning of art functions and shifts in society.

The exigencies of life and art mean galleries come and go (and there is a perverse pride around the temporality of exhibition spaces, as if the shorter the time it ran the cooler it must have been); though this felt more like a punctuation, a marked shift from the London of the early century that re-defined itself as one of the centres of the European, and global, art world.

As the debates among artists and intellectuals around a «racially representative art» shifted to discussions about social responsibility and a «folk» identity, artists like Aaron Douglas increasingly turned to the public arena as a means of addressing art and life in the 1930s.

This process of return privileges equation more than differentiation, and is part of an ongoing shift in the meaning of art.

A few years ago, Kroeger shifted again from graphic design and public murals to canvas and contemporary art, creating «fictional portraits» composed of data fragments and machine parts, exploring what it means to be human in a digital world.

While their bodies dissected the dynamics of choreographic movement that shifted between soulful and robotic, their words reflected upon what it means to be a performer within the art market and within capitalism more broadly.

In part two of an essay for Taiwan - based art magazine Artco, Art Radar founder Kate Cary Evans discusses the tectonic shifts in the Hong Kong art scene over the past decade and what they mean for the futuart magazine Artco, Art Radar founder Kate Cary Evans discusses the tectonic shifts in the Hong Kong art scene over the past decade and what they mean for the futuArt Radar founder Kate Cary Evans discusses the tectonic shifts in the Hong Kong art scene over the past decade and what they mean for the futuart scene over the past decade and what they mean for the future.