After a generation of struggle, women have attained a strong presence in today's art world, as evidenced by a bumper crop of exhibitions devoted to their work. The film spans three generations of artists, from Louise Bourgeois to Janine Antoni, in order to give an overview of the history of this important movement from the 1960s to the present day. Narration by Sasha Newman. The purposeful dismantling of the modernist myth has been the central issue of contemporary art making and art criticism. Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever expanding field of activity and influence.
Meaning is no longer fixed, context is everything.
However, despite this willful upending of aesthetic hierarchies, the issues and traditions of modernism do persist, ultimately revealing modernism itself to be richer and more complex than previously considered. Six Conceptual Artists at the Whitney Museum 58 minutes, color Ashley Bickerton, Ronald Jones, Nayland Blake, Liz Larner, Tishan Hsu, Annette Lemieux. Exhibition curator Richard Armstrong and critic Bruce Ferguson. These young artists use objects and materials to create idea-oriented painting and sculpture. Representatives of a third generation of conceptual painters and sculptors, they have turned from the self-conscious absorption of formalist art, addressing instead social as well as aesthetic issues.