Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Engineer, Agitator, Constructor – The Artist Reinvented #ArtTuesday

Compelling new show at MoMA highlighting a transitional period in art and what it means to be an artist. Through April 10, 2021. From MoMA:

These “engineers,” “agitators,” “constructors,” “photomonteurs,” “workers”—all designations adopted by the artists themselves—turned away from traditional forms of painting and sculpture and invented new visual languages. Central among them was photomontage, in which photographs and images from newspapers and magazines were cut, remixed, and pasted together. Working as propagandists, advertisers, publishers, editors, theater designers, and curators, these artists engaged with expanded audiences in novel ways, establishing distinctive infrastructures for presenting and distributing their work.

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