After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence

After Modernism: The Dilemma of Influence (1992) is a feature film. Top cast includes Isa Genzken, David Hammons, and Mike Kelley. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Isa Genzken

Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures, and artists previously excluded from modernism's privileged canons have become absorbed into an ever expanding field of activity and influence. Younger artists are a new breed of cultural scavengers, anything or anyone is fair game for appropriation or reinterpretation. Fascinated by notions of space, time and the human body, artists such as David Hammons, Laurie Simmons and Richard Wentworth have carved their own path through conceptual art.