Word: modernisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But the work underscores the central oddity, and the source of originality, in Shapiro's art: his desire to use a style derived from "radical" modernism to make credible images of the body. Minimalism didn't want the figure. It hated the idea of the totem. It despised any kind...
Up to now this diffuse movement has been dismissed with the name given it by Jean Cocteau: le rappel a l'ordre, the call to order. The custom has been to see it as a hiatus in the forward drive of modernism -- at best a faltering of energy, and at...
But there are larger reasons for seeing it. It reminds us of how ideologically determined the "revolutionary" view of 20th century art has been. One of the pernicious illusions about modernism lies in treating it as a continuous struggle against the past, as though every real artist were his own...
The De Stael exhibition now on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington is the first serious attempt in a quarter-century to set him before an American public. "Nicolas de Stael in America" holds, along with a few routine pictures, some marvelous moments. There are paintings whose intelligence and...
For decades, critics lamented that cinema, unlike painting and music, was yoked to narrative. Movies told stories about real people, and the audience was meant to care about them. Would Rick leave Casablanca with Ilsa? Would Scarlett get Rhett? Film theorists didn't care. They wanted movies to slip the...