Word: modernists
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...Samuel Palmer of Ishmael's "watery part of the world." Some of his work, particularly the figure paintings, verged on kitsch, but that only made him seem more like another American visionary, Edgar Allan Poe--so overwrought, yet so influential. Though Ryder was never (in his own view) a Modernist, a succession of American artists from Marsden Hartley to Jackson Pollock and beyond would look up to him as an emblem of aesthetic purity, a holy sage...
...introductory survey based on masterpieces. They're sort of flaunting their retrograde credentials. I myself, have taught an introduction to 20th century art in different ways, but most recently around models of representation, because representation itself is so deeply challenged and becomes one of the main problems of various modernist movements. Even so, students seem to need a chronology to perform a kind of cognitive mapping. In order to build that map, there needs to be some kind of really coherent structure, whether it's a totalising system, or a chronology, or some other kind of structure...
...highly concerned. Honig and Berkowitz have both exhibited a dedication to undergraduates during the time they have spent here, perhaps because they are serious theorists eager to impart their perspectives to a willing audience. While those perspectives are from opposite political camps--Berkowitz is a classicist, Honig a post-modernist--these two scholars had much to offer a department in need of such theorists, not to mention conservatives and women...
...went on to a magnificent career, but he dropped the Cadillac, which nonetheless haunted him for years. Late 20th century America had little patience for detailed, literal views of heaven. Two world wars and the prospect of nuclear disaster made the idea of a comfy, progressive afterlife seem suspect. Modernist attacks on God's place in this world made people allergic to bold predictions about his kingdom in the next...
...which hundreds of works by artists from Oskar Kokoschka to Henri Matisse were pilloried with insulting wall labels. "Exiles and Emigres" is the sequel to Barron's earlier exhibition. With her associate, the German scholar Sabine Eckmann, Barron sets out to describe the exodus of European modernist artists (and architects, musicians, scholars, photographers and writers) from Germany and France to refuge in England and America...