Posts Tagged ‘theory’
The Forty Part Motet (A Reworking of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui, by Thomas Tallis) creates a stunning fourteen minutes of interdependence between music and visual art. Although the work is frequently installed in a cathedral-like setting, I found its simpler placement at TAM, in a white-cube room residing behind a single, burgundy wall, [...]
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Tags: contemporary art, installation, museology, music, nietzsche, theory, white cube
In the June/July issue of Art in America, Irving Sandler contributes a strong article arguing against a revisionist understanding of the Abstract Expressionist movement being largely motivated by the Cold War ( “Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War” 65-74). Some of the article’s most poignant arguments emerge when Sandler discusses the apprehension, and often [...]
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Tags: abstract expressionism, art history, criticism, modern art, revisionist art history, seattle museums, theory
Dangerous Commodity
Playing with the concept of commodity in art can undoubtedly be a dangerous endeavor. Having a personal affinity for classical theory, I frequently find myself coming back to Kant’s contention in his Critique of Judgement that art should be “useless.” I understand this more in the sense that the artistic design on [...]
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Tags: coin-operated art, commercialism, commodity, contemporary art, theory
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