During the 1970s (and ongoing) rethink of values and methods in the humanities, stylistic analysis and certain kinds of formal discussion have been avoided, because of the dangerous implications of their grand-narrative determinism and ‘celebrations of national heritage’. The ‘history of the image rather than that of art’ is associated with ‘visual culture’ studies on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘yvonne rainer’
Artist Rooms: Agnes Martin, Edinburgh National Galleries, review at White Hot Magazine
ARTIST ROOMS: Agnes Martin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
6 August – 8 November, 2009
Writing on the dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s deliberate rejection of photogenic poses in the 1960s, Carrie Lambert focuses on the absence of image as an ethical practice. Lambert reads Rainer’s incremental dance moves as a refusal of the ephemeral, [...]
