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Make It New, Again: Collecting History
In the 1930s, American poet Ezra Pound famously encouraged modern artists to 鈥渕ake it new.鈥� Modernists heeded the call through abstraction, 12-tone music, collage, photomontage, and other experimental approaches to the visual arts, film, dance, and architecture. Today, to make it absolutely new is almost impossible given the sheer quantity of art produced since Pound鈥檚 slogan. Still, contemporary artists are drawn to the new, and historic artworks have acquired new meanings. This exhibition will feature the Midwestern premier of William Kentridge鈥檚 video, Second-hand Reading, and a special installation of Margaret Bourke-White鈥檚 20th-century masterpiece, The Living Dead at Buchenwald. Also on view will be a selection of recent acquisitions of photographs by Stan Douglas, Marco Breuer, James Welling, and Penelope Umbrico, among others鈥攎any presented in the MIA鈥檚 galleries for the first time鈥攊n an innovative installation that reveals how powerful images can acquire new, and provocative, meanings.
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In the 1930s, American poet Ezra Pound famously encouraged modern artists to 鈥渕ake it new.鈥� Modernists heeded the call through abstraction, 12-tone music, collage, photomontage, and other experimental approaches to the visual arts, film, dance, and architecture. Today, to make it absolutely new is almost impossible given the sheer quantity of art produced since Pound鈥檚 slogan. Still, contemporary artists are drawn to the new, and historic artworks have acquired new meanings. This exhibition will feature the Midwestern premier of William Kentridge鈥檚 video, Second-hand Reading, and a special installation of Margaret Bourke-White鈥檚 20th-century masterpiece, The Living Dead at Buchenwald. Also on view will be a selection of recent acquisitions of photographs by Stan Douglas, Marco Breuer, James Welling, and Penelope Umbrico, among others鈥攎any presented in the MIA鈥檚 galleries for the first time鈥攊n an innovative installation that reveals how powerful images can acquire new, and provocative, meanings.
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