AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
The secret history of modern art.(Critical essay)
Venture deep into the hinterlands of modern art history, and you come across the artistic movement of the 1880s and 1890s known as Symbolism. An international, diffuse, idealist, and mystical reaction to the naturalism of the 1860s and 1870s, Symbolism is usually presented as a detour or more likely a dead-end backwater for the losers and losing ideas of progressive modern art. "Whereas naturalism finds support in the French philosophy of Comte and Littre," wrote the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren, "Symbolism finds it in the German philosophy of Kant and Fichte." Academics have long dismissed Symbolism as conservative. Even in the 1890s, Symbolism was criticized for its ...
- Arts and minds: scholarship on early modern art history (Northern Europe)*.
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Silver, Larry June 22, 2006 700+ words
...and Bruegel--early modern art outside Italy received...interpretive framework of hidden symbolism, Panofsky also acutely...defining the first early modern art with van Eyck, this...metaphor), marked by symbolism in decline of religious...
- Anselm Kiefer. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman January 2, 1989 700+ words
...profundity is to stuff one's work with a farce of heavy symbolism which the former can use to justify its existence by explaining...Rosenthal, a dazzled enthusiast, and the staff of the Museum of Modern Art has obligingly furnished visitors with a handout lexicon of...
- From Picasso to Pollock: classics of modern art: highlighting the aesthetic...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Bashkoff, Tracey September 1, 2003 700+ words
...1911), which demonstrates the artist's theory of color symbolism kind use of animal imagery in representing spiritual ideals...shifted from Europe to America. New York became the center of Modern Art, inheriting from Paris the position of artistic capitol...
- Pipilotti Rist: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.(San Francisco)(three video...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Helfand, Glen June 22, 2004 700+ words
...brand-new one cocommissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Luxembourg's Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean...class and gender that offered keys to the installation's symbolism.) With her use of body-hugging camera work, which captures...
- Anselm Kiefer at MOMA. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
- Magazine article from: National Review Gardner, James March 10, 1989 700+ words
...Germanness of the Anselm Kiefer retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, it was fitting that, as I passed through its lugubrious...paintings, like Man in the Forest, are awash with the same symbolism that characterizes his more recent work; but their togated...
- Homeboys of the bourgeoisie. (Henri Matisse exhibit, Museum of Modern Art and...
- Magazine article from: National Review Gardner, James November 2, 1992 700+ words
...probably definitive exhibition, Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Magritte at the Metropolitan. It would be hard...works, which appear to be saturated and overcharged with symbolism. The impulse must be resisted, for in fact there is nothing...
- MoMA's "Tempo" exhibit explores time and culture. (New York).(Museum of Modern...
- Magazine article from: Art Business News September 1, 2002 700+ words
An inaugural exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens explores different cultures' unique perceptions...frames of reference regarding machines, the body, history, symbolism and everyday experience. It focuses on distinct perceptions...
- Qiu Zhijie: Qiu Zhijie is an artist, writer, curator, and educator, based in...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International May 1, 2008 700+ words
...language as an autonomous system to the internal logics of modern art. Thus this one work has given me a completely new perspective...All of these things showed me the power of materials, the symbolism that sprouts from everyday life, and the meaning of art for...
Source: HighBeam Research, The secret history of modern art.(Critical essay)