🎬 Documentary

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory position. Used, on one hand, by post-modernist artists as just one more quotable style amongst many, it is on the other hand still considered an elitist or hermetic language by audiences intimidated by its lack of recognizable subject matter. Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. Filmed at the artists' studios, the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum during their exhibition, "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century."

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Year
1999
Runtime
48m
Genre
Documentary
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Michael Blackwood 👤 Helmut Federle 👤 Günther Förg 👤 Jonathan Lasker
painting abstract post modernism abstract expressionism

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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language has a runtime of 48m ( and 48 minutes).
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language was directed by Michael Blackwood and released in 1999.
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language is a Documentary film (1999).
The cast of Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language includes Helmut Federle, Günther Förg, Jonathan Lasker, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden.

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