As a corrective step, some art historians have suggested treating the canon as shifting and unfixed, acknowledging the role that politics plays in these decisions and broadening the field to include more artists.
This sublimely weird show is an eye-opening corrective to an art history that has treated key chapters\u2014those that aren\u2019t Eurocentric\u2014as if they were written in invisible ink.
This sublimely weird show is an eye-opening corrective to an art history that has treated key chapters — those that aren't Eurocentric — as if they were written in invisible ink.
Scholars and lawyers on the other side of the debate hailed it instead as a welcome corrective in an art world too long in thrall to the Pictures Generation — artists like Mr. Prince who used appropriation beginning in the 1970s to burrow beneath the surface of media culture.
And yet, the nomadic enculturation to which I refer is posed not as a corrective of the art it discusses, nor is it prescriptive of a better method or model.
Writing for the New York Times in 2012, the critic William Deresiewicz issued a corrective: Both food and art, "begin by addressing the senses, but that is where food stops … an apple is not a story, even if we can tell a story about it.
A treasure trove of information about avant-garde performance from the Caribbean and Latin America, the show presents art as political corrective, sensual respite, and social commentary.
By 1960, with like-minded compatriots including Lygia Pape (her own grand retrospective currently at the Met Breuer signals a corrective attention to Latin- American art), Oiticica had developed sculptural expansions of painting, with standing and suspended panels.
Cohn's words presaged the rise of punk, which emerged, a decade later, as a corrective to the rock-as-art pretensions that "Sgt. Pepper" represented.
