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Article: Hodgepodge Exhibition Is Classicism--Not.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2000
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
What, if anything, can the word "classicism" now be taken to mean when applied to paintings and sculptures of contemporary subjects in the last years of the 20th century and the first year of the 21st? That is one of the questions posed by the exhibition called New York-Classicism-Now, which Gregory Hedberg and Barbara Bloemink have organized at Hirschl & Adler Modern. Another is whether it is even appropriate to speak of trompe l'oeil images of lined paper or a highly realistic depiction of a kitchen mixer as examples of contemporary classicism.
The standard dictionary definitions of classicism are not of much help in dealing with ...
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Encyclopedia entry: classicism, classic
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...classicism, classic, are terms used in several ... imitated. More narrowly, ‘classicism’ may be taken to denote the ... often qualified as ‘ neo-classicism ’, which flourished in England ...
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