Sentences with phrase «standard modern art histories»

Russian artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and especially Alexander Rodchenko emerge as much more influential and interesting in this storyline than they do in standard modern art histories, in which they're often more mourned as political victims than celebrated as art theorists.

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A Professor at the University of Virginia (1938 - 50), and chief art critic for the influential New York Times newspaper (1958 - 74), Canaday also wrote several influential books on the history of art, notably Mainstreams of Modern Art: David to Picasso (1959), winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award and a standard text in art schools for many yeaart critic for the influential New York Times newspaper (1958 - 74), Canaday also wrote several influential books on the history of art, notably Mainstreams of Modern Art: David to Picasso (1959), winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award and a standard text in art schools for many yeaart, notably Mainstreams of Modern Art: David to Picasso (1959), winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award and a standard text in art schools for many yeaArt: David to Picasso (1959), winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award and a standard text in art schools for many yeaart schools for many years.

The first major survey of contemporary Guatemalan art in the United States — and as much a political and social history as an art history — it is just one of more than 70 deeply researched exhibitions of Latin American and Latinx art at Southern California institutions comprising the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, a four - month - long program that aims at nothing less than «flipping the history of modern and contemporary art, beginning with the Latino perspective,» as Getty Foundation deputy director Joan Weinstein put it.