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Article: Back to the garden. (garden as metaphor in recent art exhibitions)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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In three recent shows driven, the author contends, by the perceived failure of modernism, the garden emerges as a multipurpose metaphor.
This fall, coincidentally, three artists opened the season at their SoHo galleries with shows revolving around the garden as a metaphor. Considering how stylistically divergent are the enterprises of Willl Mentor, a painter known for his manipulations of abstract and surrealist cliches, Kerry James Marshall a painterly social satirist, and Ronald Jones, a conceptualist sculptor, this could hardly be said to constitute a movement or even a trend.[1] Nevertheless, the synchronicity seemed worth investigating, especially because for all ...
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