|
|
Article: "THE AMERICAN CENTURY: ART & CULTURE 1900-2000".(various artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York)
- Article from:
- Artforum International
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
Tocqueville was right. He thought that the inherent conflict between liberty and equality was the one big story the US had to tell, and "The American Century," the two-part survey show on view this year at the Whitney Museum of American Art, inevitably retold that tale, playing a lively set of variations on Tocqueville's theme. Twentieth-century art emerged as a field in which the dueling ambitions of personal liberty and social parity produced a potent creative ferment, and the fruits of artistic freedom in America are made manifest in the hundreds of paintings, sculptures, objets d'art, films, photographs, videos, ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: The Three Gertrudes.(Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertude Stein ...
Art in America;
September 1, 1999 ;
700+ words
... ... portrait, holds court over "The American Century, Part I." Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ... title and, instead, think of "The American Century, Part I" as curator Barbara Haskell ... social and economic context in "The American Century, Part I," it was a matter of very ...
|
|