Sentences with phrase «wake of modernism»

What if, in the wake of modernism's demise, the grid became not an ideal structure or a portal to an otherworldly realm, but a climbing frame for the eyes and mind, an open - ended space where the viewer's imagination could play and improvise?

In this sense, the genealogy of minimalism over the past forty years is that of a restrained optimism in the wake of modernism's failed dogmatism, and diligence in response to the vague nihilisms of postmodernism — an embrace of contingency, but a strong belief in the continuation of a distinct practice of art.

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The organizers of the show wanted to redirect attention to American modernism in the wake of the Armory Show, which had generated commercial interest primarily in European artists.