Word: artã
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Running parallel to the anti-war effort during the 1960s and 70s was Pop Art, which, like the Fluxus group, adopted everyday images. However, for Pop artists, these images became art for art??s sake. While Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol replicated images of consumer culture, rock and roll’s rebellion turned inwards toward the self. Studio 54’s house band, the Velvet Underground, took introspection to its apex, while No Wave bands would perform audienceless in the New York streets as firm proponents of music for music’s sake...
...Harvey focused on was role that light played in the Gardner. Light is both a destructive force and one that allows creation. In the Gardner this dual nature of light is particularly evident. Many of the masterpieces that it houses, particularly Rembrandts’ work, are stunning examples of art??s ability to capture the ephemeral nature of light. At the same time, the museum must constantly fight to protect those same works and their many tapestries from the decay that overexposure to sun will accelerate. In Harvey and Ackroyd’s own work the relationship between...
...last time, George reflects, “White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.” Luckily for Boston theatergoers, most of those possibilities have been investigated with loving color and light, in a rewarding production which reminds of the main benefit of putting on good art??it makes a connection...
...resonance beyond its superficial meaning as the most mundane of all party decorations. We can see this glorious likeness of the Statue of Liberty thus as a kind of post-modern icon: a transformation—nay, subversion—of traditional elite definitions of “high art?? through the medium of the balloon. Because this form of art rejects the notion of “absolute truth” by implication, passers-by are thus free to imagine and enforce their own particular meaning of the sculpture. Tamiko A. Tsurudome...
...model of rigorous argument that mathematics provides, the skepticism and attention to empirical reasoning of the sciences, the rich and various examples of human action to be found in foreign places or past times, the emotional clarity and insight into our nature that we gain from literature, music and art??these aid us in understanding our condition and in discerning our purposes. The claim of liberal education—persuasive, though by no means proven—is that there is something vitally important to life that a book (yes, even a sourcebook) can provide...