This was my attempt at formalism, in a jokey way.
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Martin Mugar coined "Zombie Formalism" and framed the phenomenon philosophically.
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Even seasoned defenders of cryptic formalism may find it amorphous.
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I'm not just concerned with formalism above all; there's a message.
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She reconfigures the ceremonial formalism into an informal, ad hoc formlessness.
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If you take the appearance of formalism, but bang the cues into each other in such a way that the picture space wobbles or flickers, or doesn't work properly — you are making a surreal proposition about formalism.
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Zombie Formalism was self-serious and mumbled about the death of painting.
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By restricting his means of expression and concentrating his warring factions (randomness and control, formalism and anti-formalism) to the point of implosion, Ringe maximizes his paintings' power while streamlining their receptivity to an expansive array of meanings.
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In our postmodern world of zombie formalism, painting can seem boring and redundant.
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Hyman first studied art when Clement Greenberg's formalism had a stranglehold on Modernism.
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This mathematical formalism allows us to go systematically from the small to the large.
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Their invocation is a formalism or a symbol; a sign of compliance and belonging.
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But before we look at rainbow vaginas and pretend Picassos, let's exhume Zombie Formalism.
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The Supreme Court of the United States performs its duties with a theatrical formalism.
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Svalina's years-long exercise in formalism started in 2014 as an escape from academia.
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Stark architectural compositions and an eye for detail merge 20th-century formalism with fashion editorial.
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I see formalism as a set of appearances designed to create something that's visually dependable.
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For it, Ms. Gill uses her meticulous approach to address ideas about formalism in dance.
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As a choreographer, José Limón was full of emotion: Sterile formalism was never his thing.
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This album combines the satisfactions of pop formalism with the joy of letting loose vocally.
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Primitive systems were good enough for small communities, but larger communities required delegation, and more formalism.
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D'Souza, Matheny and their colleagues applied the same potent formalism in their recent studies with NEMs.
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Aesthetically, the furious formalism of "code-verse" flattens and thins the longer you sit with it.
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If Zombie Formalism tended toward minimalism, Like Art is maximalist: bright colors, attention-grabbing, and romanticizing.
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The exhibition culminates with a compelling shift, from rigid formalism to the imperfections of bodily dimensions.
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They were not interested in formalism, Pop Art, Minimalism, or any narrative that touted progress in art.
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JS: I am curious what you think about this, Gary: the idea of pure painting and formalism.
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Formalism and conceptualism seemed arid and dogmatic; the rules had been written from a narrow point of view.
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Of their contemporaries, the only pop band I know whose modest, workaday formalism matches theirs is New Order.
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And he promises to renounce formalism and "unhealthy individualism," and instead write melodic music for the Soviet people.
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Despite all its formalism, math is not meant to have sacred texts that only the priests can read.
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Savinio's adulteration of old and new was highly influential in the postmodernist revolt against the strictures of formalism.
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The sequel is an arch, artsy exercise in action-movie formalism, and Reeves is what gives it human form.
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A claim over and above the formalism of what's "allowed" in a world of gerrymandering and lifetime political appointments.
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Obviously I don't think that's fair, and could say a lot about why I think the formalism was helpful.
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Where Dunbar's sculptural paintings achieve a genteel formalism, Monaghan's expressionistic works deliberately highlight their open-ended and often anarchic nature.
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Despite the formalism, Burnham notes, the symmetry of each building is "bent a little" to add an ad hoc air.
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Excitement is generated by Ms. Reichardt's comic lack of affect as well as her feel for landscape and underlying formalism.
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And yet, even if formalism has been a recurring feature of Korman's work, no single group of paintings typifies it.
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The conversation between photography, the dance performance, and the painting is a contemplation of the relationship between formalism and empathy.
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Her early formalism is sometimes channelled cunningly, as in "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," the best-known poem from her first book.
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He is an extremist with a philosophical streak whose movies combine an aesthetic of shock with an almost geeky formalism.
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They gave the dragon a well-defined body, but one that is hidden from the mathematical formalism of standard quantum mechanics.
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By the 203s, he'd already had a prolific career, yet his images for Leaves of Grass reach beyond that studied formalism.
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A veteran of economic practice as well as principles, he was not a slave to formalism or blind to "realistic considerations".
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His style has been consistent since he began painting, and it's doubtful he's ever read Jerry Saltz' tirade against Zombie Formalism.
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Most often, though, it's her words, which come together in surprising patterns, a blend of old-timey formalism and magical storytelling.
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SHEILA PEPE: HOT MESS FORMALISM A midcareer survey of Ms. Pepe's often site-specific fiber and textile installations. Oct. 213–Jan.
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Under Mr. Evans's direction, the pace lags and the actors never find that sweet spot between arch formalism and comic abandon.
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The papers, which ran to more than 500 pages, were written in a novel formalism and contained many new terms and definitions.
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This is really interesting to me, navigating through and straddling that place where mystical experience intersects with formalism and contemporary art issues.
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GS: My elevator pitch for my work is that I am using the tools of formalism to build the house of surrealism.
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What is being proposed here is not a return to formalism but an art in which meaning is embedded in formal value.
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JS: I notice reproductions in your studio of artists like Jake Berthot, who balanced modernist formalism, the grid, and nature-based expressionism.
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But the story is mostly a showcase for Rosenberg and Boss's Looney Tunes formalism, from its Saul Bass-style cover design onward.
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The government group, led by Sun, said it would investigate the matter thoroughly, and "eliminate formalism and bureaucracy", the People's Daily reported.
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On the one hand, complex formalism conveys gravity, but then is betrayed by an inability to resist slipping a banana peel underfoot.
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Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
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Their pop formalism lands with a crisp minimalist shock: they are pointedly, aggressively impersonal, which is how you know real people are involved.
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"Cadres fond of formalism and bureaucratism who create a negative influence or grave results will be strictly punished, without tolerance," the official said.
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The almost throwbackish formalism of Robinson's writing sets it well apart from more trope-busting work—but the callbacks don't diminish its effect.
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The results are large-scale abstract works that connect past and present, formalism and intuition, languages of color theory and human rights legislation.
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TU: Even though I rebelled against rigid formalism, I do know and love the necessary role that formal abstraction plays in visual communication.
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The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.
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The works of Wetterich and Reuter provided the mathematical formalism necessary to calculate what happens with the quantum theory of gravity at higher energies.
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Can an electron be ascribed "real" position and "real" momentum in quantum mechanics even if the formalism does not allow us to capture both?
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The almost throwbackish formalism of his writing sets it well apart from more trope-busting work by, say, Nnedi Okorafor, whose work Robinson admires.
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If painting is thoroughly divested of discourse – no Greenbergian formalism, no end-of-painting narrative — then all of paintings' potentialities are up for grabs.
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And part of the reason I'm a critic of it is that, it often seems that what you're getting wasn't objectiveness, it was formalism.
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Moldbug likes to use the term "formalism," or "neocameralism," a reference to "cameralism," the philosophy of government embraced by Frederick the Great of Prussia.
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I don't think of myself as a storyteller, because I think that's coded with a type of formalism that I'm never really thinking about.
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With an eye towards free expression over formalism or commercial restraint, he invites us all to stretch out, forget the rules, and have fun.
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When desire is the theme, formalism can produce a sense of holding something back, of keeping certain feelings hidden no matter how engaging the hook.
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The CCDI official also warned that officials still suffer from excess "formalism" and "bureaucratism", Communist Party terms for failing to carry out central party orders.
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Kennedy's increasing impatience with the blind formalism of his Republican-appointed colleagues helps to explain why he finally decided to uphold an affirmative action program.
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In, our current cultural temperament, an age of irony that favors negation, disaffection, and severe formalism, expressing pleasure in visual complexity and beauty is infrequent.
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The drawing is of a very uncertain face — deformed, perhaps ecstatic — rattling around in an abstract style similar to the zombie formalism so fashionable today.
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Art for its own sake, or an audacious formalism, could be realized even while adhering to the traditional genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life.
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There is a shared sense, hard for anyone to resist, that nowadays Greenberg's and Fried's formalism has ceased to be a productive way of talking.
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In a prose work that describes painting as a hermetic art, de Chirico opposes the stream of inner experience to the strictures of academic formalism.
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But where Johns is more invested in formalism, Gocker fuses formalist concerns with an interrogation of a large cultural phenomenon, like Big Tech's quest for immortality.
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Rather, the long-awaited transition was a seamless and carefully managed affair, cloaked in the quiet formalism of a modest ceremony before the nation's national assembly.
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Ms. Imhof's main efforts are shiny acrylic monochromes (black, white or turquoise) on aluminum with impulsive flurries of scratches — variants of zombie formalism that imply vandalism.
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The artist, who lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan, is also blurring boundaries between formalism and free verse, preparation and presentation, the poetic and the mundane.
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"In those years formalism was part of the strategy," Rich recalls: Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
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As an alternative to formalism, Soviet musical bureaucrats championed socialist realism: a style of art that would be intelligible to everyday people and promote national values.
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This abuse of abstraction, so to speak, in its adulteration of old and new, became precedent-setting for the postmodernist revolt against the strictures of formalism.
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Brandt's Modernist formalism hardly sets him apart from immediate forerunners like Alfred Stieglitz or Edward Steichen, or such generational peers as Edward Weston or Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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But he didn't have a real training in fine art and academic painting, so some of the big paintings are terrific objects, but lack art school formalism.
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" The gift, Mauss writes, appears generously given, but this is at best a "polite fiction, formalism and social deceit," behind which lies "obligation and economic self-interest.
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"We need to leave behind the habit of triumphalism, stridency and formalism in broaching the topic of national news," he said at the 2011 Communist Party Congress.
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Bisbee has moved between the elegant and gnarly over the years, between tight formalism and bristling entanglements, without ever sacrificing his inherent, and brilliant, sense of craft.
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Jason Stopa is a historically savvy painter whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or an expanded employment of the language of paint.
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As an artist, Birk is more focused on the resourcefulness found in the streets of Mexico City than he is on analyzing the layers of formalism or craft.
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One hesitates to assign the Black Paintings' poignancy to the historical fact that such semiotic complexities would soon vanish in the service of a kind of Pop formalism.
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I'm trying to make "good" cinema, but I have less money, and I have an aesthetic that embraces color and formalism the way movies did in the past.
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He has returned to, or perhaps never left, his undergrad alma mater, Bennington, the last stand of Greenbergian formalism: Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, et al.
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Inspired by online advertising, their art doesn't come off as graphic design, yet everywhere bumps against the wall forever separating graphic design from fine art, commercial art from formalism.
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Different as these writers may be, what unites their disparate practices, in the common view, is the assumption that their reliance on procedure results in works of arid formalism.
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The Expressionists adopted the look of his style, which serviced their drive to counter French formalism by stressing the psychic toll and the compensatory exhilarations of the modernizing world.
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In the decades that followed, Loving explored new directions, creating more organic abstractions from torn and sewn pieces of canvas, trading in a restrained formalism for an unbounded, exuberant aesthetic.
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What if we weighed the two as conflicting values, instead of this false formalism where the right to speech is recognized but the harm caused by that speech is not?
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The 29 artists, who were on display through June 5, used painting, sculpture, performance, and installation to explore observational aesthetics, active engagement, and new takes on formalism, via identity politics.
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In Julia Rommel's fourth show at Bureau, "Candy Jail," she continues her brand of corrupted formalism, exploring ways to revivify Minimalist abstraction with a non-Minimalist, piecemeal sense of process.
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With the kind of formalism that is symptomatic of contemporary painting and largely dominated by abstraction, we viewers are not used to reading historical references within this kind of painting.
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Although she was mentioned in further attacks against formalism in 1948, Ustvolskaya was able to counter the accusations by composing a series of state-supported pieces, like music for films.
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Defendants that seek good-faith resolutions of expansive class actions — meritorious or dubious — should not bear a further tax for procedural formalism that fails to make the settlement more fair.
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Portland artist Ka'ila Farrell Smith reassembles elements of indigenous design, abstract formalism, and graffiti into paintings about fractured identity, with dense surfaces built up like mounds of colored scar tissue.
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In their paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations, the students of the august art school demonstrate their fluency with formalism and, in a couple of instances, their interest in avian imagery.
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Claudia Goldin, a professor of economics at Harvard, thinks the way that the subject is taught—with an emphasis on formalism, rather than human dynamics—could be part of the problem.
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Both Coleman and Hammons struggled with the commercial demands of their respective practices, and as a result both shifted toward conceptualism over formalism, eschewing more marketable forms of their artistic mediums.
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Ortega and Orozco's formalism is juxtaposed with Cruzvillegas and Dr. Lakra's psychedelic readymade crudeness, creating a spectrum of collective, multidimensional ways of seeing, but offering no alternative to the status quo.
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What he perhaps does not emphasize sufficiently is that the comparability of different art practices — which is precisely what makes history useful to the artist — presumes a certain kind of formalism.
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But in any case, the works on display here joyfully diverge from the overly academic, zombie formalism-style painting that has plagued the medium's upper echelons in the past few years.
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What was attractive about Le Corbusier was also what was repellent: his deracinated formalism; the reproducibility of his plans; his determination to have architecture exhibit the technological innovations of its era.
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On DVD Avant-pop, as the term was used by the Village Voice music critic Robert Christgau in the heyday of punk, described the synthesis of vanguard formalism and mass media content.
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Joyce introduced me to Miriam Schapiro's work and I became inspired by how she left abstract expressionism and began to conflate non-western artistic references, heavy pattern, domestic materials, formalism and feminism.
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His works have a flat, edgy style, with bold lines that contain a formalism merged fine, craft, and folk art to erase any kind of hierarchy or privileging of a particular style.
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While the originals usually mask this impulse behind pop formalism, Hatfield's shambolic approach accentuates it, as Newton-John's chirpiness finds a natural corollary in the bleeding guitar fuzz and Hatfield's vocal quaver.
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It embodies the best of the Academic Poets, so called because many of them held teaching posts at colleges and universities but, more important, because of the button-down formalism of their verse.
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In the decade since Spahr's and Young's performance, choreographer and dancer Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
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If so, it's because he has given younger painters a way out of their own race with art criticism, academic theory, shopworn irony, heartless formalism, and mannered diffidence as if painting had no future.
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When we add in the way in which Jones's mind and body are changing, the dances themselves take on a new sort of vulnerability, a new riskiness far from the formalism of the '70s.
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In its scale, monotony of materials and color, preening formalism and disregard for the gritty urban fabric, the hub is the sort of object-building that might seem at home on the Washington Mall.
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" The curator says, "Whether the work is responding to a moment in social history, contemporary circumstance, or aesthetic formalism, they are all pulling from a very human and very specific set of cultural prompts.
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The faithless electors in Chiafalo and Baca may be correct that, purely as a matter of legal formalism, they had the right to cast an electoral vote for whoever they wanted to in 2016.
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"After Harold Rosenberg (ghosts)" (2015), part of the Conscientious Objector to Formalism series, reproduces the famous image as a negative and places Rosenberg's line, "Apparently, aesthetics can function as a tool of racism," above them.
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Genesis Belanger's four sculptures and two paintings is a geometric sextet of formalism; the giant cigarette statues, soft and quasi-erotic, are juxtaposed with the solid concrete and steel shapes upon which they are mounted.
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Mr. Crossman seeks beauty in formalism through precise gestures, using four dancers and a table, while Mr. Teicher, working with the jazz dancer Nathan Bugh, interprets the music of Ella Fitzgerald with verve (1:00).
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Blocton paints grid-based abstractions, but her treatment of the surface seems expressly designed to send Clement Greenberg, the preeminent postwar critical voice and iron-fisted arbiter of formalism and flatness, howling into the night.
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By freeing us from norms and assumptions, they can open up new possibilities for living and community, which I think is a much more productive use of architectural discourse that isn't relegated to just formalism.
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In place of the detached formalism of Walker Evans and the poetic lyricism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Andre Kertesz, he brought a moody, cool intensity that stamped his pictures with a readily identifiable hallmark.
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The work of the Brooklyn-based artist and photographer John Edmonds has been noted for its striking formalism and exploration of identity, sexuality and desire among black communities — black lovers, friends, acquaintances and complete strangers.
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If his analytical use of paint and color moves Ringe's work in the direction of American Minimalism, he compounds that movement's materialist formalism, and ultimately refutes it, through the extra-visual ideas undergirding his process.
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There's a certain modern formalism in Tajima's work that sums up a great deal of the current global momentum through addressing processes of homogenization and standardization at every level, both of industrial production and social policy.
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Genre categorizations all fell in the shadow of Western art history, which he included in his 278 list of 21963 things "to avoid at all costs"—in addition to formalism, abstract expressionism, and "black bourgeois aesthetic".
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A school photo is a tortured and overpriced but ultimately valuable timestamp of a moment when childhood was forced to confront the boring formalism and stifling identity rigidity of adulthood, and rebelled without having to try.
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But I'm as impatient with critics who embrace self-serving auteurist fundamentalism or aesthetic formalism as I am with those belligerent fan boys who insist that only a comic-book obsessive can review a superhero movie.
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Recently returned to attention after a long hiatus, Frankenthaler is being hailed not only as a covert naturalist — and, to be sure, a heroine of formalism — but also an unfortunate victim of her era's implacable misogyny.
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The past decade has seen a rise in singer-songwriter albums that in theory sound like electronic pop music while turning inward toward a sparer, more contemplative formalism, as incarnated by Lorde and Carly Rae Jepsen.
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This rich and satisfying procedural stew, which never sticks too close to any one recipe, takes Spahr's and Young's notion of an embodied literary formalism further than most writers have the training or imagination to take it.
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When we encounter a lengthy explanation of formalism, near the end of the book, we realize that it might have been useful near the beginning, where Scott worked to pinpoint the ideas questioned in Marina Abramović's art.
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About the works done during this formative period in Katz's career, Frank O'Hara wrote: Katz has found a liaison between the personal and the general, the intriguing dialogue without which one is left with either formalism or expressionism.
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An entire subgenre exists of works by Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Marcia Hafif and Wade Guyton, who all used the device to explore the limits of formalism, nihilism or materiality.
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Knitting needles, tangles of golden chord, blue and white trinkets and plinths, allude to a kind of silent music sheet, the reading of which relies on an internal dynamic system that extends far beyond the formalism of sculpture.
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But that's actually very hard to do, because you usually need a completely different mathematical formalism to describe the very distant gravitational field—at "infinity" or out here at Earth—than you need to describe the black holes themselves.
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Prokofiev by then was no national star: He had been condemned by the same Soviet forces that opposed the aesthetic "formalism" of Shostakovich, and several of his works were banned from performance, including the sixth and eighth piano sonatas.
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Moody, stark and deliberately composed and executed, they recall the high formalism of f/64 Group photographers like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston, who sought a purity of form that sometimes verged into hyper-realism or abstraction.
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In these drawings — equal parts pared-down formalism and uninhibited automatism — we see the artist making unmediated contact with his medium, an unsettlingly urbane howl in which the words teeming elsewhere in the show seem to catch in his throat.
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Though Bushwick galleries can sometimes feel like they're taking refuge from reality in formalism (especially in summer), this show and several others this year (including our number five, Nasty Stitches) brought together very smart, seemingly disparate works into very successful and cohesive frameworks.
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The rules of professional dress are changing faster than we can say "OOO," and the levels of formalism in office attire are still very much alive, and very much a shopping conundrum — one that we're here to help you work through, of course.
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Clear-sighted as it is, Faiz's poetry — celebrated for its ability to balance a delicate, classical formalism of diction and structure with political awareness and a conversational tone — is unremittingly tender: a love letter to a place and a people beset by violence.
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The production, which includes quotes from the Bible — a recent rehearsal had the cast chanting variations on "until the flood came and took them all away" — is arresting for its formalism and expressive, full-bodied movement that is layered with religious iconography.
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Where the Strokes skew more toward the classic-rock formalism of the Rolling Stones or the Beatles, Mr. Valensi's new pursuit looks to slick '80s New Wave and power-pop bands like the Cars and Cheap Trick, with catchy, fist-pumping results.
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My 993 years of teaching art have shown me that a combination of ignorance about history and the supremacy of formalism in art education — more than overt racism — underlie the failure of most artists of any ethnicity to address racial issues effectively.
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COLD WAVE Rely on Oprime39 and Superbad Solace — the brothers who make up the Queens duo Timeless Truth — for preservation of old-school New York rap values: burly formalism, gut-punch assonance, beats that sound as if they've been dragged under a subway line.
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Scott is making the case against an old-fashioned academic formalism (best exemplified, I think, by the New Critics who dominated literary theory in mid-twentieth century America) that holds that the biography should have no bearing on how we view a work of art.
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And yet, and yet… I was (and remain) too wedded to the aesthetics of modernism—you might even say of formalism—to be entirely convinced by an art fixated on a bygone style that was itself already so indebted to premodernist modes of representation.
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One of them glosses, in a different way, the more-than-formalism that "Theme Park" seems to call for: A reductionism that makes the world complex, a truth that simply nothing can explain, is how events curled up in space when seen are scattering.
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Whether due to a rejection of the staggering certitude of Greenberg's formalism, the deep veins of racism/classism/sexism running through twentieth- century criticism and curation, or the closely guarded access to institutions of art, these historical narratives are undergoing an intensive curatorial corrective.
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He really, really doesn't like the formalization of economies of scale and imperfect competition in trade that went along with the rise of the "new trade theory", and compares it to the excessive faith in formalism that I myself have condemned in much of macroeconomics.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads When: Tuesday, November 15, 7–8pm Where: 219PE (21 Wilshire Boulevard, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles) Inhabiting the space between painting and sculpture, the wall works of German artist Jan Albers offer a way out of dead-end formalism.
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I've mentioned Wayne's predilection for East Coast lyrical formalism, and Cam is in many ways the apotheosis of that style, Wayne's northern counterpart in dizzying multisyllable rhymes and flat-out weirdness (it's probably not a coincidence that Wayne has worked so much with Cam's partner Juelz Santana).
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Like the insurrection of rock and roll against show tunes and sugary popular music, Munch's touchstone images came to satisfy a yen for something grittier and more urgently engaging than the formalism, based in Impressionism and Cubism, that was upheld by art historians at the time.
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These two artists are very different, but their basic message is that painting can be renewed in ways we haven't seen before, whether it is reshaped by Mr. Marshall's erudite meditation on black life in America, or exploded from within, as in Ms. Owens's worldly, encompassing formalism.
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Every time Pusha-T mentions Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, or alludes to the Lox, or name-checks Akinyele, he prizes a kind of street formalism particular to the New York (and New-York-inspired) rap of the 1990s, which has now largely been relegated to the underground.
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Instead of hewing to the geometric formalism of stencils, randomness began to reign, perhaps inspired by enamel kitchen "speckleware" — first sold in the 1870s and still found on lobster pots and clam steamers — or the new vogue for spotted linoleum, invented in England around the same time.
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The characters engage in an imitative form of art by creating improved replicas of themselves, but thanks to this act they're able to achieve a greater form of expression — finding a way out of their misery and a higher meaning of art, beyond formalism and mimesis.
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By the 1970s, the dynamism and poetic reveries yield to a sparer, but no less intense formalism, exemplified by Nevelson's rectilinear collages in which thick, orderly brown and black borders draw the viewer's gaze deeper into miniaturized, highly geometric patterns, some formed from colored embossed paper and bright foil.
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Since formalism in pop music is an effect of adherence to received genre convention, it makes sense that the ultraformalized K-pop industry should host an assembly line of specialized "genre performers," but even so I'm impressed by the range of sounds coming out of corporate Korean studios.
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Atomic Blonde's West Berlin is drawn in neutral beige, drab office wear, and boxy sedans and its East pushes the utilitarian architecture of West Berlin all the way into grey formalism—and then fills it with hitmen in cheap suits and and the neon punks of the city's underground youth culture.
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Escaping from the rigid formalism of classical art school, finding a space of freedom in the hard-edge abstraction of 1960s America (Onur also attended graduate school in the US), and working outside the studio, collecting materials from the world; they rejected the analytical figuration prevalent in Turkey at the time.
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What is curious, however, is how the supporters of such textualism and formalism are largely silent this week as the Trump administration is planning to send more troops into Syria and to intervene in Yemen ... all without the declaration of war required by the text of Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
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That the black seeds seem to be patterned after the dots in an early-60s Larry Poons underscores the sense that you're dealing with a historically savvy artist whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or, as he would put it, an expanded employment of the language of paint.
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Professor White explored his ideas in strictly philosophical works like "Toward Reunion in Philosophy" (22002) and in sweeping intellectual histories, including "Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism" (21963), a study of John Dewey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thorstein Veblen and other thinkers, and "Science and Sentiment in America: Philosophical Thought From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey" (21972).
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The Museum of Modern Art, which has defined Modernism more powerfully than perhaps any other institution, can often seem monolithic in the mind's eye, essentially unchanged since its doors opened in 1929: a procession of solemn white-box galleries, an ice palace of formalism, the Kremlin (as the artist Martha Rosler once called it) of 19704th-century art.
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The differences between their bodies of work are clear, something she herself confirmed: Instead of the formalism or portrait work of Mr. Evans and Ms. Lange, Ms. Welty's images show life as it unfolded before her, distilling the solemn quiet of a blind weaver at work or the warm communal embrace of women at a carnival.
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Anyway, this isn't about me (well, it sort of is, but never mind.) The important point shouldn't be "don't formalize"; it should be that formalism is there to open your mind, not close it, and if the real world seems to be telling you something inconsistent with your model, the problem lies in the model, not the world.
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Behind all the formalism and eccentric virtuosity, there's personal history from a writer who has rarely put himself into his own fiction before: the family legends and tragedies that Moore has blown up to mythical size to preserve them from the void, and the streets and buildings, lost and soon to be lost, whose every cracked stone is holy to him.
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Thus she was first schooled in the aesthetic standards of the male universal — then represented by Modernist formalism, in particular as it was espoused and delineated by critics such as Clement Greenberg — before she began to search for what might constitute a feminine/female/feminist aesthetic, whether such a thing might be, and, if so, how it might be different than the first system.
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Any of these interpretations can be retrofitted to the feminist détournement of formalism that Schapiro espoused in the transitional moment when she became involved with feminist art: you can, if you are looking for it, read into the work the idea of "central core" imagery that was an important tenet of Schapiro's new aesthetic and teaching in 1971–10833, the first year of the Feminist Art Program.
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The latter are the most ambitious in their hybridity of masculine formalism and feminine connotation and contingency — works such as "Anatomy of a Kimono" (1976), a massive multipaneled piece in the collection of Bruno Bischofberger, and "Wonderland" (1983), a large work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the finest and most poignant of Schapiro's homages to domesticity and traditional needlework crafts.
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A wooden statue of first lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE was the butt of some jokes after it popped up in her hometown in Slovenia last week, but the man behind the "slapstick formalism" piece is defending his choices.
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But this 215-year-old festival also makes space for younger and lesser-known voices: The lineup of 229 companies and choreographers includes the wizardly Beth Gill with "Brand New Sidewalk," her latest meditation on formalism; Monica Bill Barnes & Company in "The Museum Workout," a physically invigorating tour of the North Carolina Museum of Art; and Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. with a revival of Mr. Young's "Interleaving," a whimsical compilation of four dances. americandancefestival.
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Underlying all this is an enthusiasm for Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque, the comic–grotesque traditions of caricature and expressionism as an essential enlivening agency for work that would resist any and all artistic norms: not only formalism and its many spin-offs, but also Pop's corporate spirit, and the equally "cool", perceptual, photo, and idealist realisms that have flourished in America, Europe and the UK from the mid-sixties on.
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