Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment.VELETRZNI PALAC Like last year's "Global Conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. These concepts are not arbitrary inventions but are reflections of similarities among particular things themselves, e.g., the concept male reflects a similarity between Paul and John.," "Beyond Preconceptions" attempts to offer a more decentralized view of the art of the '60s than canonical The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis. accounts have. In that light, the title seems as much a prescription for visitors as a description of the work. Beyond Beuys and Broodthaers, Hesse Hesse (hĕs, hēs`ē, hĕs`ə), Ger. Hessen, state (1994 pop. 5,800,000), 8,150 sq mi (24,604 sq km), central Germany. Wiesbaden is the capital. and Weiner, or even the rediscovered Brazilians Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, curator Milena Kalinovska includes figures with stubbornly local reputations: Argentine Victor Grippo, Canadian Betty Goodwin, Yugoslavian Mangelos, to name but a few. Will the wide-net approach lead to a more inclusive account of a turbulent decade? Or will we be left with a merely fragmented and subjective view? Nov. 2, 2000-Jan. 14, 2001; Berkeley Art Museum, Oct. 31, 2Q01-Jan. 7, 2002; and other venues. |
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