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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language (1999)

January 1, 1999 Documentary • 48m

Overview

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."

Writer

Sasha Newman

Top Billed

Helmut Federle

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Crew
Christhart Burgmann
Christhart Burgmann

Executive Producer

Imke Wallefeld
Imke Wallefeld

Executive Producer

Kathleen Diehl
Kathleen Diehl

Production Manager

Julie Sloane
Julie Sloane

Second Unit Director

Felix Andrew
Felix Andrew

Sound Recordist

Ed Cantu
Ed Cantu

Sound Recordist

Mead Hunt
Mead Hunt

Director of Photography

Uli Fischer
Uli Fischer

Director of Photography

John Murphy
John Murphy

Sound Recordist



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