Sentence examples for authority of art from inspiring English sources
The recent surge of claims against museums by families of Holocaust victims is a symptom of the desire to enlist the moral authority of art in making amends.
I had to admit the reason for it, which was that "The Gates" is a populist affront to the authority of art critics, and to accept being just another shuffling, jostling, helplessly chummy citizen.
Even as her early criticism anticipates every academic trend from Cultural Studies to Queer Theory, she has been resolute in her resistance to everything postmodern, insisting on standards, morals and distinctions and the authority of art, experience and truth.
The Qatar Museums Authority, headed by Sheika Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani, a daughter of the emir, is the governing authority of most art projects in the country.
A hallway hung with wallpaper samples — the first thing a visitor sees — commandeered my attention with the instantaneous authority of great art.
The mathematical and architectural achievements of the Maya would just be impersonal facts to wonder at without the humanising and troubling authority of their art.
A quick snack of information online – Google doodle, Rembrandt's birthday, let's move on – has absolutely no purchase on the authority of his art.
Next, museums should ban, one by one, all the contemporary intrusions that disrupt the authority of great art, from photography to loudmouthed tour guides.
Like Edward Hopper, a very different painter and Hartley's only equal in their generation, he possessed a self-reliant temperament that pitted gritty American resources against the intimidating authority of European art.
The book was centered on a 1654 painting by the Dutch artist Carel Fabritius — the "Goldfinch" — that Ms. Tartt, speaking with the authority of an art historian, said is the "missing link" between Rembrandt and Vermeer.
And such a disembodied show is precisely what the curators -- Anne Ellegood and Michele Thursz, with Defne Ayas -- are after: one that as far as possible sidesteps the authority of the art institution, with its conventions of display and critical categories.
