Sentence examples for artistic precedent from inspiring English sources

This "appropriation and reworking of artistic precedent," as Ms. Promey calls it, meshes with the concerns of contemporary artists who are skeptical of the cult of originality that grew up in the heyday of modernism.

Although Ms. Barney has spoken of Vuillard, the most revealing artistic precedent is Manet.

There's an artistic precedent for the aspect of the project that is morbid: Bruce Nauman's "Audio-Video Underground Chamber" (1974-75).

Why did the Royal Opera, a government-subsidized house, agree to a premiere that has the veneer of a vanity production, a project that has roiled London critics, disconcerted many Covent Garden patrons and set a disturbing artistic precedent?

In such an environment, at least ideally, the creative act is untethered by artistic precedent or market trends.

There are numerous artistic precedents for these musical wild women.

But if moral and political portents hang in the air, so do artistic precedents.

Seeking artistic precedents for this moral detachment, this commitment to neutrality, I come up with four quotations.

Her artistic precedents include John Altoon, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Mary Frank and possibly the early work of Claes Oldenburg and Georg Baselitz.

The works in the show can seem like materializations of their explanatory wall texts, which, in turn, draw the mind to artistic precedents and to worldly issues and events.

Burroughs seems unmindful of (and uninterested in) such blatant and varied artistic precedents as Jess, Mark Tobey and Niki de Saint-Phalle, which contextually color your perceptions of his work.