Make It New, Again: Collecting History –– Minneapolis Institute of Art https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/make-it-new-again-collecting-history
September 25, 2014 – March 1, 2015 | Harrison Photography Gallery (G365) | Free Exhibition In the 1930s, American poet Ezra Pound famously encouraged modern artists to “make it new.” 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’s slogan
Still, contemporary artists are drawn to the new, and historic artworks have acquired