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Bernd and Hilla Becher

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J Henry Fair | Posted 05.12.2013 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Art, Fine Art, Walker Evans, Francisco De Goya, Black Paintings, Las Meninas, Commercialism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Arts News
J Henry Fair

It's often been observed that one must leave the country of birth to see it more clearly, a truism that applies to politics, but also to art. The exhibit of Walker Evans at Die Photographische Sammlung in Köln is a perfect case in point.

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'Landscape: Scene/Re-Seen' at the Westport Arts Center

D. Dominick Lombardi | Posted 07.10.2012 | Arts
Read More: Edward Burtynsky, Joel Sternfeld, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Peter Bialobrzeski, Contemporary Photography, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky, Helen Clark, Westport Arts Center, Landscape: Scene/Re-Seen, Landscapes, Arts News
D. Dominick Lombardi

By design, "Landscape: scene/re-seen" is not an homage to the majestic beauty of nature, nor it is a proclamation of our inevitable doom. It, as Andy Hall, the collector whose works we see here so eloquently puts it, is "the world we live in."

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Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.06.2013 | Arts
Read More: Elizabeth Catlett, Gillo Pontecorvo, Stanley Kubrick, Pop Art, Picasso, Komar and Melamid, Guy Debord, Political Art, The Gulag Archipelago, Jacob Lawrence, Feliks Topolski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Minimalism, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Existentialism, Theresienstadt Camp, Felix Nussbaum, Shu Ogawara, Situationists, Holocaust Art, House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, Concentration Camp Artists, Vienna-Actionists, Simone De Beauvoir, Abstract Expressionism, Political Art Timeline, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

2011-12-03-Screenshot20111203at10.01.48AM.pngMost demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

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