"Abstract Resistance" considers the metaphor of resistance as a
political and compositional force defining the art of the past
half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that "where
there is power, there is resistance," it explores art made since
World War II that has been shaped by traumatic historical events in
complex ways. Rather than creating an explicit art of social
protest, artists have responded to violence and upheaval with art
that rejects the comfort of moral certainty. Such art withholds
information and evades identification. Exhibition curator Yasmil
Raymond provides an overview of the exhibition's themes and
artworks; art historian Simon Baier traces the origins and
development of nonobjective art through the writings of critics
such as Charles Baudelaire and Meyer Schapiro; and philosopher
Marcus Steinweg draws on the ideas of Theodor Adorno and others to
provide a theoretical framework for artistic resistance.
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