Spiral jetty is now underwater, but the concept of earthworks like this challenged, expanded and revitalized our notion of what art is. In the environmental work running fence, six miles of parachute material mounted on poles were stretched across sonoma, california, to the sea. The entire ranching community and the California Office of Environmental Protection were involved in deciding whether the fence would be allowed and, indirectly, whether this was a work of art at all. The controversy was part of the experience. At the same time attempts were being made in urban environments to respond to criticisms that our culture had become dehumanized. New ways were sought for art to reach the people. In the early seventies the idea of the museum changes. When the Pompidou Center in paris was planned it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. It was to become a factory of information a sort of center for news, a center for the masses, a kind of supermarket for culture. The idea was that the
I think the title was the archetypal world of henry moore and he sent me a copy, which he asked me to read. But after the first chapter i thought i better stop because it explained too much. And i thought it might stop me from ticking over if i went on and knew it all. narrator moore was english to the bone, he carved his reputation in english elm and boxwood, cumberland alabaster, and portland stone. When his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. For all its rain and taxes it w h and he cleared a new path for english art. anthony caro you look at the history of english art, and its pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. You know, he was in that same league. And so it made people realize you can be an artist and you can be english. narrator sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussauds. Other celebrities bought his wor
When his art made him wealthy he turned to bronze and marble, but he never turned away from england. For all its rain and taxes it was h and he cleared a new path for english art. anthony caro you look at the history of english art, and its pretty miserable after constable and turner and so on, and henry, somehow, was competing with braque and picasso and so on. You know, he was in that same league. And so it made people realize you can be an artist and you can be english. narrator sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussauds. Other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. Dorothy Kosinski i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artists sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame . narrator henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. His career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to study at the Royal Col
Challenged, expanded, and revitalized our notion of what art is. In the environmental work running fence, six miles of parachute material mounted on poles were stretched across sonoma, california, to the sea. The entire ranching community and the California Office of Environmental Protection were involved in deciding whether the fence would be allowed and, indirectly, whether this was a work of art at all. The controversy was part of the experience. At the same time, attempts were being made in urban environments to respond to criticisms that our culture had become dehumanized. New ways were sought for art to reach the people. In the early seventies, the idea of the museum changes. When the Pompidou Center in paris was planned, it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. It was to become a factory of information, a sort of center for news, a center for the masses, a kind of supermarket for culture. The idea was that the square and all the area around the building was more important in a
One which led away from what he considered to be the historical exhaustion of painting and sculpture. Spiral jetty is now underwater, but the concept of earthworks like this challenged, expanded, and revitalized our notion of what art is. In the environmental work running fence, six miles of parachute material mounted on poles were stretched across sonoma, california, to the sea. The entire ranching community and the California Office of Environmental Protection were involved in deciding whether the fence would be allowed and, indirectly, whether this was a work of art at all. The controversy was part of the experience. At the same time, attempts were being made in urban environments to respond to criticisms that our culture had become dehumanized. New ways were sought for art to reach the people. In the early seventies, the idea of the museum changes. When the Pompidou Center in paris was planned, it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. It was to become a factory of information, a