and new government policies that allowed for more openness on the one hand and tighter control of contemporary art on the other hand, avant-garde sentiments and idealism have gradually weakened in ...

This was a theme I explored in one of my art appreciation classes in college ... The philosophy of idealism is to represent things as you would like them to be, rather than how they actually ...

The Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard has taken on these risky pieces in a new exhibit that revolves around the rejuvenating idealism of this anti-art movement. "Multiple Strategies," on view until ...

Beckett, who also directs, includes much historical exposition about the pre-World War II intersection of art, politics and naive idealism, in her ambitious but confusing production currently ...