Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.
Yet these changes to the status of the artwork embodied in installation have also enabled a mediated engagement with rapidly shifting social and political conditions through forms of creaFigure 2.3 Beverly Semmes, Big Silver, 1996.
In 1974, Robert Kushner traveled to Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan — a trip that profoundly changed his ideas about art. He was overwhelmed by the beautv and power of Islamic art, by its repetition of forms and ...
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( But the contemporary artist Beverly Semmes does , when she plays out her 1950s inspired ironic subversion of feminine deaesthetics with House- dress ; fig . 44 ) . In contrast to Campion's heroine - who is known as a silent woman yet ...
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And Kennedy said this : If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society it is because their ... Senator Alfonse D'Amato , Senator Robert Byrd , and the Reverend Donald Wildmon , I find almost painful Kennedy's ...
But Lippard never published on either of the only two women artists among the Bowery Boys — Eva Hesse and Sylvia Mangold — during the sixties. The monograph Eva Hesse appeared after the artist's death, a circumstance Lippard apologized ...
After the 1960s, however, the exhibition focused mostly on artists who use fashion or clothing as a theme in their work (from Joseph Beuys' felt suit to Beverly Semmes' gargantuan dresses and Charles Ledray's miniature garments).