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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could it be? That would be too much to ask of art. And some of the best art made in America has been completely silent about its social context--although there are times when silence itself can be read as a significant act of sublimation. There's very little visual art, for instance, that directly deals with slavery. Or, to take another example, here is a country founded on religious impulses--Puritanism in the Northeast, Spanish Catholic missions in the Southwest--which nevertheless has hardly produced any major doctrinally religious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN VISIONS | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...story is a long, rich and complicated one because American culture is older than people tend to think. Americans love to invoke the idea of American newness, but neither the place nor its visual culture is new: Boston is older than St. Petersburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN VISIONS | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIT AND GRIDS | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first film won a Peabody Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: PETER PAN GROWS UP BUT CAN HE STILL FLY? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...have to have a beauty contest here and say which method is to be privileged in relationship to Coleman, but I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that I believe something very essential and specific to Coleman's work was to be gotten by talking about the visual medium...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Krauss and the Art of Cultural Controversy | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

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