Every single month, the art CANNOT be stopped
:Interview
Only Connect
Anne Hardy interviewed by Joanne Laws
Found objects are everywhere, they’re affordable to work with and have intriguing material qualities, but I’m more interested in them as materials or objects that do not have an inherent or recognised value – as things full of potential, to become or to be, very much like ourselves.
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On Modernism
Steven Mansbach argues that Modernism was, at its inception, a unifying language which sought to counter extremism and nationalism
Ironically, when Modernism was finally free to be uncovered, exhibited and advocated in post-Soviet Russia and throughout so much of its former imperium, it was frequently conjoined with a revived nationalism because each ‘liberated’ state sought to reassert its national distinctiveness.
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On Sculpture
Marjorie Welish carves an alternative pathway through postwar sculpture
Devastating world wars have clearly altered the course of cultural politics, and they have significantly rewritten the remit of sculpture. Improvisation and bricolage refocused the very sense of making, unmaking, doing and undoing.
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