More is More: Reinventing Pictures Past the Body

By the Nineteen Seventies images had clawed its method from the margins of the artwork world, gaining larger acceptance in museums, galleries, and college school rooms. A brand new era of artists started integrating images into their creative apply, working alongside photographers who have been already totally engaged within the medium. With this newfound adoption—notably amongst Conceptual and Performance artists—images discovered itself on the vanguard of creativity.

More Is More options 43 images by 25 artists, a lot of that are on view for the primary time on the Nelson-Atkins. Artists within the exhibition embrace David Hockney, Gordon Matta-Clark, Andy Warhol, Barbara Crane, Nancy Burson, Jan Groover, John Baldessari, Lew Thomas, Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Barbara Blondeau, and Ray Metzker, amongst many others.

More Is More is accompanied by a number of images in gallery L10, that includes works by Eadweard Muybridge, Ilse Bing, Irving Penn, Edward Weston, Doris Ulmann, Clarence White, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Louis-Rémy Robert, and William Henry Jackson amongst others.

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