Sentences with phrase «visible cultural context»

Set against minimal backgrounds, the objects are divorced from any visible cultural context.

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Absent the Postwar malaise, Existentialist angst, and Surrealist bent that shaped the cultural context of Action Painting for the New York School, the uniquely American reference of landscape in Abstract Expressionism is perhaps more visible on the West Coast, especially in the work of Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell, and Charles Strong, the artists most heavily represented in the show.

Making African - American art and artists visible and addressing the cultural and social context out of which their works arise without making the art secondary to race itself is no small challenge.