Sentences with phrase «wrest art»

What follows here, then, is a sprint through some of the artistic and curatorial highlights and low points, in search of commonalities, contradictions, and the ultimate conclusions to be drawn from three very different iterations of more or less the same idea: wresting art from the thrall of the market and restoring it to a conscientious existence.

Not exact matches

When the Reading Railroad decided it wanted to build a massive building for its trains smack dab in the same spot as two existing markets, Philadelphians — then and now proud and stubborn, and proud of being stubborn — raised a cry and hue, and wrested a compromise from the powerful company: The train terminal went above a new, state - of - the - art, 39,000 - square - foot indoor market that would eventually outlive the railroad company that built it.

Her life's work is described by New York Times art critic John Canaday (Terence Stamp) as kitsch, allowing «Big Eyes» to wrest with that ol' conflict between what is popular but tacky and what is true art and elitist.

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Fighting talk — but surely it must grate that his reputation as the champion of 1960s art has been wrested from him by Andy Warhol.

A construction in 2009 extended Central Park to the roof of the Met, but could it return to nature what arts institutions had wrested away?

Manet shocks by wresting clothed and unclothed figures out of Renaissance art and into the present — and it says something that Thomas skips not just the clothed men, but also Manet's sudden shift in scale to a fourth figure, a woman, in the background.

Postmodernism is still wresting with Modernism, and contemporary art is still wrestling with both.

This all - American hero had helped New York wrest from Paris the title of world capital of art, spearheading his nation's first great movement, Abstract Expressionism, into the bargain.

They insist on her ambiguous forms wrested out of male control, materials unfamiliar to sculpture like resin and polyurethane, imagery like lamps and lips at a time of Pop Art, and softer wrinkles in the years before her death.

Back in the 20th century, everyone was talking about how New York had wrested the status of modern - art capital from Paris.

This exhibition digs deep into the bedrock of the first American art style of international stature, formed by a hard - drinking, self - destructive band of mostly brothers who wrested a brave new style from European art, much of it set before them by — who else?

Wrested back from forces which in recent decades rendered it nostalgic, the body as a medium is ripe for art historical revisiting.

He certainly did not agree with those who believed that painting had a fixed telos or goal; and he was convinced that it was up to painters to keep art and art history open, and to continue wresting from it something new and fresh.

New York was the new center of the international art world and when Young arrived there in 1960, Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning — the men who had wrested the lead in modernist art from Europe — could still be seen talking and drinking in the Cedar Tavern.

They were interested in the democratization of the art object, wresting it from strategies that they saw as elitist.

A pioneer of feminist performance who has transformed the very definition of art, her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, and the body of the artist in relation to the social body.

Wresting performance art from the theater realm and situating it squarely in the contemporary visual art world, «Radical Presence» is presented as «the first comprehensive survey of performance art by Black artists.»

Having triumphantly wrested the center of the art world from the School of Paris, the so - called New York School...

Lisa Brice Through 10/28 at Salon 94 Brice wrests female nudity from the grasp of art history's men.