It's about exploration, getting artists to figure out what's possible".
The outbreak of World War I, or the supposed War to End All Wars, and the unprecedented devastation that ensued challenged the foundations of many cultures' belief systems, which led to a great deal of experimentation and exploration by artists with morality and in defining what exactly Art should be and do for a culture.
The writer's explorations of artists from Géricault and Delacroix to Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud.
But it also repeatedly recedes, as the text digresses into explorations of artists and genres, and flits around locations as varied as San Francisco, Dungeness, the Outer Hebrides and the German Rhineland.
Among its many achievements, Mr. Haynes's film hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory, exploding the literal-minded, anti-intellectual assumptions that guide even the most admiring cinematic explorations of artists' lives.
"Mine is a quiet exploration," the artist famously said, "a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design.
These 78 minutes are packed full of detail, from the artists' exploration of space and perspective to maps reflecting the changing image of the world.
Landscape tourism was fueled by and fueled the market for landscape representations and inspired the creation of new aesthetic categories such as "the sublime" and "the picturesque". At the same time, the development of tourism including accommodations, roads, and new forms of transportation facilitated artists' exploration of the land.
Published by Subito Press and distributed by Small Press Distribution, As We Know is a masterpiece of cross-genre exploration by two artists at the top of their game -- and already well-known for challenging generic boundaries.
