Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anthropology concentrator Elizabeth Harman '97 challenged the assumption that African art has value only when free from Western influence in her thesis, according to her advisor, J. Lorand Matory, Foster associate professor of anthropology and of Afro-American studies...
...fetish for printing frequent and bitter attacks on affirmative action and feminism that one is forced to consider two equally frightening and bizarre alternatives: either the magazine is actually a freakish parody of contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...
...grandeur of its pictorial rhetoric, Church's work didn't fully express the hot idea of westward expansion within North America--the belief in Manifest Destiny. To convey the image of the Western landscape as glorious and triumphal, the Cinerama devices first used by Church were taken up by other painters, notably Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and Thomas Moran...
Like it or not, by 1965 Manhattan was the center of Western contemporary art in terms of collecting power, museum clout, promotional and dealing skills and, not least, the amount of talent stacked up in it. The old, genteel American suspicion of the new had vanished. The circuit with the worship of newness in the larger culture had closed. The first beneficiary of this situation was Pop Art, the first wholly accessible style of international Modernism--an art about consumption that sat up and begged to be consumed. Its epitome was Roy Lichtenstein, who emerged in the '60s with...
...after his troops captured the city. Will the country will live up to its new name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo? New finance minister Mwana Nanga Mawampanga says that Kabila wants to hold multi-party elections within a year, a commitment supported by the United States and other Western nations. While Mawampanga issued a call for unity, he added that individuals who had been associated with overthrown President Mobutu are welcome...