After the Avant-Gardes

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After the Avant-Gardes Reflections on the Future of the Fine Arts Edited by ELIZABETH MILLÁN OPEN COURT Chicago and La Salle, Il ...

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Contents Introduction vii I The Future of Art 1 The Importance of Being Odd: Nerdrum’s Challenge to Modernism PAULA. CANTOR 3 M ...

III The Prison of Avant-Gardism 127 7.A Changing of the Avant Guard FREDERICKTURNER 129 8.The Enchanted Loom: A New Paradigm for ...

The following collection is the fruit of intellectual labors begun at an Arts Colloquium held under the auspices of the Hegeler ...

what he calls, “a real cure”—one which “treats our mind and imagina- tion as well as our behavior.”^2 The spirit of Turner’s con ...

I The Future of Art ...

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Modern art cannot be exempt from history. It will fail by its lack of sen- sual presence. Modern art lacks flesh. —ODDNERDRUM St ...

works is usually enough to place him in the modern world. Early in his career, his works reflected contemporary political concer ...

logical depth, the self-portrait reminded me of Rembrandt (at the time, I knew nothing of Nerdrum’s devotion to Rembrandt), and ...

even when they own them. My colleague Moses, who became as much of a Nerdrum fan as I am during our New Orleans visit, reports t ...

ernism. He really is a rebel by temperament and his quarrel with mod- ernism is genuine and runs deep. Nevertheless, at a number ...

As disturbing as it may be to the modernist establishment, Nerdrum may thus represent the wave of the future in painting. He has ...

I was captured by art at an early age, and painted Poliakoff-like abstractions before I turned nine. A reason for this was proba ...

Moe wrote in Aftenposten (June 11th, 1964): “It simply won’t do to ignore a whole generation of progress towards the limits of a ...

two professorships in figurative technique established. As Pettersson himself describes the results: “All hell broke loose. Staf ...