Anyone who argues that modernism in music, modernism in literature, modernism in the visual arts and modernism in architecture all four come from and speak to similar sensibilities, just because ...
"ie those of sound vs sight, don’t map onto each other at all easily, nor should we expect to them" Wonder what ppl who say stuff like 'oh why do ppl like Pollock but not Boulez in the same num...
Bear in mind these extracts were written a full decade before I realised that influence didn't exist! :D
Yes, in retrospect I think I'd treat these various names less as lineage (not really a helpful lens for me) than as marking out the cornerpoints of the reference space in which the drama will be ...
I'd put them more in a lineage of German photographers Bernd and Hilda Becher who documented the seemingly mundane talismans of the industrial landscape (such as pit heads, water towers) so obses...
"Joseph Beuys and Paik were both advocates of the use of “poor materials”, materials engrimed with the greasy or rusty patinas of human handling, surrounded by the low-rent aura of wrecking y...