"Regarding Beauty".HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Seven years ago in The Nation, Arthur C. Danto posed the question "What happened to Beauty?" Now he is invited to write one of several catalogue essays for Neal Benezra's and Olga Viso's extensive survey. Irrelevant for decades, beauty is back with a vengeance with great violence; as, to strike with a vengeance s>. - Hudibras. with even greater intensity; as, to return one's insult with a vengeance s>. See also: Vengeance Vengeance . A show of eighty-plus works by more than thirty artists active since 1950, "Regarding Beauty" will investigate various articulations of the beautiful, vis-a-vis the human form as well as less tangible realms - light, thought, and abstraction. The artists included range from Picasso to Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist. Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several to more recent arrivals, like Pipilotti Rist Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland) is a well-known video artist. She lives and now lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles. Biography Elisabeth Charlotte Rist was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland. and Matthew Barney. Oct. 7, 1999-Jan. 17, 2000; travels to Haus der Kunst The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. , Munich, Feb. II-Apr. 30, 2000. |
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