Not exact matches
Olney though contends Goldsmith has overegged his role in the «
apolitical» anti-Heathrow movement: «For him to say «the only way we can stop Heathrow
is to appoint me as MP»
is actually ignoring a great deal of
work done by thousands of other people over the decades.
Still, as a mostly
apolitical black comedy and dark melodrama, «Lovelace»
works reasonably well, and that
's mostly due to a strong pace and a stronger cast.
And the show's organizers — Johanna Burton, director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum,
working with Natalie Bell and Sara O'Keeffe, assistant curators — have included a substantial amount of entirely abstract
work of a kind 1982 audiences perceived as
apolitical, though here it
is not.
It follows accusations in 2016 that the prize
was failing to engage with the current climate, with the
work of last year's winner, Helen Marten, seen as
apolitical.
MB: Yeah, I don't believe the rhetoric around this hermetic, internalized force that
works through you that you have to block out the world, and it has to
be apolitical, and a painting
is a painting.
What he called for
was work taking into account this context rather than masquerading as self - sufficient and self - referential, arguing that «art for art's sake» serves only to perpetuate an idealistic illusion of art as eternal and
apolitical.
None of this information
is disclosed by the
work itself, nor
is it essential to the experience, but it does ground the
work in Gonzalez - Torres's «identity» — refusing to become
apolitical, impersonal, or blind to difference, and also refusing identity as a confine.
A similar political /
apolitical bifurcation
is present in the
work and lives of artists
working between 1865 and 1900.
'» Lewis confounded critical categorization in part because his activism
was not immediately evident in his art, although, as Anfam argues, his abstract
works were far from
being apolitical.
Using visual subject matter that
was wholly abstract, filmmakers could create
works that, while occasionally interpreted as
apolitical and «safe,» actually utilized complex structures and challenged viewers to reexamine the narrative basis — and in some cases the very materiality — of film.