Traditional Aspects of New Land Art
1982; College Art Association; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1982.10792798
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoNewness in art frequently engenders efforts at a comparable newness in formal analysis and critical evaluation. Those aspects considered inventive receive scrutiny, while those that continue or amplify tradition are overlooked. Such newness in criticism, while not inaccurate or unhelpful, generally requires subsequent reinterpretation. A case in point was provided by the recent exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky's Improvisations organized by E.A. Carmean for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. What had hitherto been thought to be entirely abstract works were revealed to contain veiled but identifiable subject matter, often with a Biblical source. Kandinsky's description of these works as “a largely unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character, non-material nature” had defined the limits of previous criticism.
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