Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)

ALL 01/01/1999 (en) Documentary 48 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1999
  • Production
    Michael Blackwood Productions
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  • Original title
    Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • Original language
    en
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Overview

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. Filmed at the artists' studios, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum during their exhibition, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century."

  1. Story

  2. Julie Sloane

    Editor



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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999) 48 Min

ALL 01/01/1999 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1999
  • Production
    Michael Blackwood Productions
  • Original title Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. Filmed at the artists' studios, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum during their exhibition, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century."

  1. Michael Blackwood

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Julie Sloane

    Editor

  4. Michael Blackwood

    Producer