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WW2 Aftermath
-"Theory of Avant-garde" Burgous
-question if it is still possible
-believe art became a product - institution produced art = product art
-many artist stuck between past and future
-what kind of art should be dome after ww2?
-options from the past and the result
-design = function
-abstract/geometric = optimistic
-existentialism = emotions/trauma
-difference in country (Europe vs. US) -
"Ach Alma Manetro" Villegie and Mains
-myth of originality
-tradition of artist is to respond to world (copying from)
-respond to the options in art after the war
-idea of salvaging, destroying, and creating from that
-response of post war France
-interception of the old and the new
-idea of "rag picker", refuse to be swept up in "Progress"
-destroying language (progress) into an esthetics
-response to pressure of modernization/capitalism/nationalism
-de-collage vs. collage
-pieces still readable - achieving posters -
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Nouveau Realisme
-manifesto written on Oct 27 in Klein's apartment
-disbanded as soon as formed but the ideas in the movement continues
-focus in Europe (different conditions, war rebuild)
-interest in "collective singularity"
-interest in bringing life and art closer
-a return to "reality" as oppose to abstract painting
-idea of reusing "recycling" the world around them - urban, industry, advertising (reality/life)
-but not return of figurative art (refer to ww2 Stalin) -
"One" Pollcok
time placement -
"Mountain and Sea" Frankenthaier
time placement -
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Pop Art
-challenge traditions of fine art by including imagery from mass media
-under backdrop of:
-Abstract Expressionism - reaction to the US wide movement
-spread of capitalism under Marshall Plan
-idea of kitch - easily understandable by the masses (fast art)
-not too differnt from Monet's "Olympia" - idea of responding to the time -
"Tire Print" Rauschenberg and Cage
-form of a scroll - idea of story, unfolding, repetition, evidence
-the feel of the movement of opening up both ends
-Cage drove a really dated car across pieces of paper, tire dipped in ink
-sense of musical scare - yet it is a tire print
-collaboration of two art fields (visual and audio) -
"Women" de Kooning
time placement -
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Neo Dada
-audio and visual art movement with similarities as dada movement
-emphasis on art produce rather than the concept
-use of modern materials, popular images and contrast in the materials
-denies traditional concepts of aesthetics
-develop in NY, US - bridge between Abstract Expressionism and pop art
-US - levitowns (conformity) - standard of living, consumerism
-hight of art standard - Pollock, Dekooning, etc. -counterpart to Nouveau Realism in Europe -
"Flag" Jasper Jogns
-loaded signifier but what is signified is unknown
-making the flag his own?
-nationalism - can be put to jail if harm American flag
-notion of newspaper underneath
-flag covering up the news? -
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Gutai
-art movement based in Japan - founded by Yoshihara
-focus on cry of the material - inner life of the object
-influenced the Fluxus movement
-started practise of installation
-group dissolved at the death of Yoshihara -
"Bed" Rauschenberg
-personal - bed (private notions)
-broke up with Jasper John?)
-about self but not about pouring out emotions (vs. Abstract Expressionism)
-not interested in literate audience (whether they will understand or not)
-but knows how to use images from his past work
-dialogue between the AE and now (idea of killing off the father)
-again, life and art together -
"Target with Four Faces" Jasper John
-interest in "combining things that shouldn't go together
-panting and sculpture
-interactive
-use of wax to bound pigment
-dries past so the brushstrokes are evidence
-deliberate painting - keep inside the lines
-layers of newspaper underneath paint - but cannot see/read the paper underneath
-faces - identity, target where the body is? -
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Minimalism
-reaction to abstract expressionism - remove suggestions of self-expression
-erase distinctions between paintings and sculpture - make "specific objects"
-remove appearance of composition, artist hand
-use of industrial material
-viewer activate work
-interest in corners (connection to Malevich)
-work that is easily doable (no skill/technique)
-idea of phenomenal - can be found in everything but one is too distracted to see it
-roll of minimalism is to strip bare the distraction to see it -
"Electirc Dress" Tanaka
-not as interested in the action of art than the other members of group - more conceptual
-like a kimono - but with electric lights
-dangerous, hot, wire present (risk life wearing it)
-use as a performance piece but without the person (artist) = sculpture
-perform with drawings of the lights as backdrop - idea that the abstraction brought to life
-interest in beauty of the ordinary - believe beauty isn't technique
-art doesn't need to be technical but point to it
-Gutai -
"Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?" Hamilton
-small collage - designed for reproductions
-parody of post war consumer culture
-idea of women been both a sexual display and a domestic wiz
-a commodity even if the domestic is her domain
-mix of the public and the private - no distinction with invention of media
-Pollock painting as rug
-a mix of fetishism - sexual, commodity, technological
-echo of the Independent Group
-interest in ordinary action but surrealized -
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Happenings
-a performance based art work - creates an environment/situation for viewer
-key elements are planned with room for improvisation (most of the time)
-very hard to describe as each is very different
-idea of no hierarchy in material - use of anything (toilet paper)
-later, the idea of happenings became more of a gathering (poetry reading, jamming, protests, etc.)
-idea that galleries will find something to sell (even in a non-object art work) -
"Mon Oncle" Tati
-artist known in the silent film era
- how to respond to entering of sound and colour?
-difference between responding vs. taking sides
-main character walking back and forth from the old and new (Paris)
-idea of communication (technology vs. human)
-still to do with industrialization, modernity, etc.
-like a compare and contrast
-branching of medium -
"Meta-Matic #10" Tinguely
-idea that viewer pick pen, push button = make an art piece
-notion that it is the portrait of artist
-taking theory of artist/art product step further
-rejected in show - so make it and put outside of the show
-making fun of Abstract Expressionism
-interest in movement - part of Le Movement exhibition
-idea of wind-up toy sculptures =waking up the dead
-meta=go beyond, metaphysical -
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Neo-Concrete
-Brazil art movement - a response to the city, change etc.
-interest in geometric shapes - giving life to the abstraction (not form follow function)
-the object surpass the material - a living organism
-2 waves - latter more performative - first more with colour (influenced by rest of art world?) -
"The Marriage of Reason and Squallor" Stella
-interest in literal meaning (no metaphor) - but doesn't stop meaning from seeping in
-intellectual - interest in expanding painting
-theorize - next break through, away from mystical/personal
-work part time as house painter - uses these materials in his work
-knows when finish (when all line filled
-scale based on brush width (all calculated)
-"what you see is what you see"
-not perfectly straight
-labour orientated (no thinking)
-later works look like sculptures (play with corner) -
"18 Happenings in 6 Parts" Kaprow
-interested in pure action -no object
-artist studied under AE field - started idea based on Pollock (action painting)
-work is confrontational, no narrative theatre
-exhibited like an obstacle course (tie with minimalist? viewer activate work)
-taking art away from the mach, aura art - more like theater collage
-complete distain for art market
-once done, everything is thrown out (assemble only for the moment)
-aggressively wrote, theorized about his art (new progression) -
"Poubelles" Arman
-full of garbage (idea of garbage cans)
-artist sees them as portraits
-asks friend for their garbage - portraits of them through what they consume
-can see the status of the person through their garbage
-also did exhibition where he filled gallery with 1 week forth of garbage within 1 block radius of gallery
-idea of capsule, keeping what is meant to be thrown (relate to Villegie)
-idea of chance - did artist adjust the objects or was it chance? (relate to Dada) -
"Animal" Clark
-made of hinged metal plates (relate to Tallinn's circle thingy)
-hands on, manipulate-able
-idea of "open art"
-relate to minimalist
-viewer make it art by walking around it (in this case by manipulating it)
-Neo-Concrete artist -
"The Street Enviorment" Oldenburg
-nonsensical but reflects moments
-perform as alter ego, abstract
-went to Yale, very studied/educated
-have Expressionist tendency and a bit of surrealism
-interest in objectivity to gallery
-but there is a plot and narrative to his happenings but others may not get it
-idea that knowing too much, logical step after that is to understand the nonsense =P -
"Flag" Oldenburg
-object from a happening - relate to Jasper John's flag
-burn American flag - carefully painted burns
-vs. John, illegal to damage the symbol of the flag
-invokes the viewer but does not necessary makes sense (much like his happenings)
-child like questioning of patriotic value
-again, gallery needs something to sell -
"Monochrome Blue" Klein
-interest in attaching pure pigment on canvas = infinity
-patented own shade of clue
-made identical blue monochromes but label different prices to it
-play with self projected values
-interest in idea of artist as charlatans (seller of bad goods) - romantic view of artist as other worldly
-play with extreme fraud - consider the value system
-respond to a more functional world - rebuild tradition of artist as genius
-made art where to object disappears - focus on belief of the artist's worth -
"Tir" Niki
-play with intention vs. expression and chance
-like women in Dekooning out for revenge or anxiety of aftermath of war?
-stuff paint in garbage containers, paint over in white then shots it
-almost ritualistic process
-killing by giving object life in art
-artist was fashion model - play with idea of her as the object
-play on Duchamp's "Large Glass" - shooting of the bride
-change in art style by 1967
-debate if stereotype of female a sign of giving up or bring up the obvious -
"Self Portrait with Badges" Blake
-British Pop
-still in ration - by 1961 = American take over (capitalism) complete
-have badges - both European and American
-new market of teens (baby boom) = jeans
-use of traditional portraiture background (behind = owner's land)
-but not a heroic pose
-follower of fashion = seeking identity
-life size - painted not a photo -
"I Love You with my Ford" Rosenquist
-very political
-a large mural - images from pop culture held together by specialize bomb dropper plane (Japan)
-idea of the plane is what is holding all the in-between - holds the pop culture
-consuming, tax, all link to the bombing
-consumer products bomb the nation
-spaghetti - idea of perfect family, Levittown, cars (Ford)
-was a billboard painter -
"The Store" Oldenburg
-alter ego = Ray Gun
-started a manufacturing company under name
-rented a storefront to sell product, nobody buys (sold things like "Meatloaf" 1961)
-non-functional objects
-a performance, a gallery, a joke?
-reproduces what he sees in the streets, life and art
-gets show in Green Gallery in 1962
-if buy in store = $3, in gallery = $300
-2005-6 = store in similar fashion - can't buy only borrow -
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Conceptual Art
-as early as Duchamp's "Fountain"
-everyting is conceptual but the movement is more like an attitude
-idea that artist's doesn't need to learn to do anything, only about the idea
-strong in the 60s-70s
-interrogation of art, less focus on a product
-importance of documentation of the process/concept (documentation was not considered art) -
"32 Campbell's Soup Cans" Warhol
-artist well known for in advertising - sold a lot of shoes (good at making desire)
-many artist did similar work for living but separated the 2 identities - Warhol joined them
-all hand painted - slight differences (name, etc.)
-portrait size - personification?
-known product- act of de-symbolization through repetition
-taking over cooperate power
-idea of studio = factory
argue of original/aura
-about "like", the cliche -
"Accumulation (Ari Mail Stickers) Kusama
-Warhol desire for repetition, Kusama = compulsive repetition
-work bridges different art movements, not clear category
-use of ready made (maid)
-movement in mistakes, repeating (not perfectly straight but okay with it)
-had an obsesive/conpulsice disorder (self check in) - her art =form of theoraphy for her
-grew up in wealthy family
-also did forms of happenings
-later years did Louis Vuitton store design (see no problem in it) -
"Masterpiece" Lichtenstein
-fast art - consume without thinking (what Greenburg is afraid of)
-make awareness of inner and outer space (theatrical)
-return of representational - easy to understand, fresh
-use of text, generation after the war
-almost witty - idea of masterpiece
-from a comic?
-a painting -
"Blue Table" Spoerri
-artist quite ballet to make this sculpture
-literally putting life on the table
-personal, just past, almost a self portrait in ways
-idea of furthering still life, life and art
-consider it as geography/map
-wrote about it - every object has own drawing/dairy
-bohemian but also consumer
-spectacles - using object to trigger thoughts (anti-response?) -
"Fluxus Manigesto"
-international attitude of critique-ism
-but with idea of whimsical play
-purge world of dead art
-almost futurism but look of cut and paste, handwritten
-self aware of contradictory -
"Night Sea" Martin
-works mathematically - yet personal when actually painting
-work in 2 sizes of square (to do with body proportion) cut down on decision
-think self as late Abstract Expressionist but was included a minimalist by public
-influence by Buddhism/Zen religion/culture
-nature feel - logical/rational nature -
"The Diagonal of May 25, 1963" Flavin
-work with light and colour
-light designs an experience - aesthetic device
-materials bought from hardware store
-idea of lighting effecting mood
-work hard to photograph
-can't look too close, blinds - leaves a retinol after image
-light bulbs burn out -easy to DIY (doesn't need a degree for these work -
"Condensation Cube" Haacke
-plexi-glass cube on a plinth (bring in notion of plinth = art)
-action happening on the inside
-idea of breath, organic in a non-organic shape
-notion of sweat
-artist does whatever art style is in "fashion" (popular) but puts his own twist -
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Fluxus
-Latin word meaning "flow, fluid"
-open up what art can be
-idea of mail art - no invite, no who
-Ona "Grapefruit" her name card, hybrid between orange and lemon
-includes performance art
-interest in "anti-art" or anti-commercial esthetics
-under leadership of Maciunas (wrote manifesto) -
"Gas Tanks (Spherical)" Becher
-took photographs like this - architectural, designed by engineers (form from function)
-dead set against American art - context of Marshall Plan
-swift of art center (from Europe to US)
-always show photos in grids of 6,12, etc.
-in ways, documenting/archiving their country (buildings like these dissapearing) -interest in the lost
-Germany couple
-"new objectivity"
-working class esthetics
-influence by Sanders - documented types of people
-waits for the same natural lighting on each shoot -
"Cut Piece" Yoko Ono
-sits motionless in front of audience
-instructions given to cut articles of clothing on her body
-if one audience refuses, issues brought up
-idea of willing participants (went to see) but forced situation (idea of mass psychology)
-Fluxus artist -
"One and Three Chair" Kosuth
-believe artist should be focused on art like a physicist on physics
-published book "Art after Philosophy" - art has own system of logic
-interest in interrogating art
-work = chair, photography of chair, and textual definition of a chair
-interest in the relationship between "real", the representation/documentation, and language
-importance of using photograph, not a painting -
"Untitled" Judd (4 metalic 4-sided cubes in a row)
-rejection of Abstract Expressionism and pop art (what the public is more attracted to)
-stress on repetition and serialism
-push art to emptiness
-calls object "real object in real space" (relate to Malevich)
-idea of "honest work", "thingness" (no illusion/delusion)
-making order, systems not idea
-use to be an art critique - work about his own work
-about experience of object in the space
-factory made, use of construction material to make "useless" objects -
"Equivalent II" Andre
-use of bricks (humble objects) found in alleys
-brings in question of market (a brick is a brick)
-gallery focus on selling the object, work brings focus on the space of gallery (responds to the space)
-idea of anti-precious (but collectors do buy them)
-allow viewer to step on it but not re-arrange it (some exhibition, viewer must step on to enter)
-working class esthetics -
"Every Building on the Sunset Strip" Ruscha
-unfolds like film strip
-sunset strip = legendary Hollywood star location
-style = boring, no flare (compare to what the location would indicate)
-different esthetics
-use of book pages as ready-mades
-idea of a loop
-literal to the title - redone 3 times, can see the changes in the location
-better known for his paintings of text portraits "Annie" 1962
-idea of book works seen as art work (new in 1963)
-trying to fit between high and pop art -
"Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square" Nauman
-went to art school, graduated, got studio space - what to do with it?
-paced while pondering what kind of art to make - realise the pacing is art
-conclude - I am artist, I am in studio, so whatever I am doing is art
-shift from the object to an activity
-video tapes himself with surveillance camera format what he does in his studio
-set up certain parameters (like the square on floor)
-open up new possibility of art
-documentation - film - durational but framed -
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Arte Povera
-Italian art movement - have an anti-America attitude
-interest in labatory instead of production
- return to the material
-idea of ground zero, no culture, no art system, art = life -
"21 Oct. 68, Santiago, Chile" On Kawara
-painted every day the date of that day (a whole day activity, need to wait for paint to dry)
-monument the mundane
- monochromes and text - the non-functional with the functional (font depends on his location)
- both art modernist ideas
-size varies, personal but does not need to think (Stella)
-store each in boxes with a cut out of city's headline (archival)
-also sent postcards/telegrams of when he woke up/I am still alive
- existentialistic but without the cliché of expressing/emotional -
"Igloo di Giap" Merz
-use of humble material (Arte Povera) plastic bags full of dirt
-contrast with neon lights (tie in advertising)
-open-ended comment (general, contradictory, neither option works) -
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Land Art/Earthworks
-movement where landscape and the work of art is linked (not merely placed in)
-idea of site-specific - away from the gallery space
-not necessarily use of natural material but does comment on nature vs. man-made/culture
-question concept of selling artwork (finance through film, documentation, models) -
"Commissioned Painting" Baldessari
-interested in idea of pointing - tells viewer what to look
-read a criticism of conceptual that claims to be nothing more than pointing
-did paintings of photo of hand pointing at various objects
-hires amateur and technical paintings/artist to do the paintings with caption of their name
-question artistic authorship
-idea of him being a choreographer - directing the action without no direct hand in it -
"Landscape Manual" Wall
-interested in the in-between (urban and rural)
-picture/images taken through a car - idea of "cinematography"
-spend 10 years driving around, exploring the system
-book has collage esthetics - show the editing of the pages
-viewer aware it is not "perfect" (the idea of perfection) -
"Genital Panic" Export
-cut out crotch part of her pants - brush up against viewer during film festival
-show "real" female while "representation" of a female is on screen
-surrealistic performance art?
-renamed herself after cigarette brand that she smokes -
"Following Piece" Acconci
-follows a person in a public place (stops when private location reached)
- takes notes (CIA vs. killer)
-but someone is documenting the following, following the follower
-comment on industrialization/modernization, the presents of more and more surveillance cameras? -
"Spiral Jetty" Smithson
-inspired by salt crystal shape in water - play on macro and micro and scale
-almost ritualistic feel - but will disappear
-idea of wonder for the future
-confronts the environments - use industry to create a natural looking-ish drawing?
-idea of art outside the gallery space - must travel to see the work
-yet in person, viewer cannot get the perspective of the aerial view
-work heavily documented (include the process) -
"Catalysis III" Piper
-walks around in different get ups - looks different so people look at her
-documenting the looking (the documentation probably gets attention too)
-idea of being the "other"
-comment on racism? colonialism, immigration, etc. -
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The 70s
-art scene becomes more text based, anti esthetics feel
-sparks of radical movements but quickly got absorbed and the radical became the tamed/norm
-rupture of medium specific dicipline with conceptual art -
"Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971" Haacke
-made art that look like conceptual art…
-researched how his show is funded - found out the gallery's boss makes money being a "slum lords"
-presented the info in way that "look like art"
-show was shut down before opening
-tie in history of people donating to museums as a way of money laundering
-again, artist does whatever art style that is popular with his own twist -
"Farewell to Faraway Friends" Ader
-idea of the solitary/sunset - return to the romantic, sublime
-going back to the emotions
-yet idea of staged, someone taking the photo
-also did postcard "I'm too sad to tell you" 1970
-idea of the process behind the images - the process that lowers the emotions -
"Hartford Wash: Washing, Tracks, Maintenance: Outside" Ukeles
-"maintenance art"
-scrubs gallery floors, clean, etc. during public hours
-comment on role of motherhood, domesticity while also an artist
-combing her two worlds (Warhol reference?)
-"my work will be my work" -
"Post-Partum Document" Kelly
-idea of language form identity
-influence by idea of doctors and graphs tells that a child is good/bad
-follow development of her child until he can write his own name (understanding of language)
-documents it all in relation to being a parent, female, artist, and things around them
-last from 1973-1979 -
"Splitting" Matta-Clark
-work with buildings that are to be demolished
-opening of inside/outside relation
-did collages of split house
-refer to his work as anti-architecture
-play with living space -
"Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me" Beuys
-interest in "social sculpture" - taught that for monument courses
-1st American exhibition
-occur during Vietnam war
-focus on non-violence political stances
-refuse to touch American soil - picked up at air port
-asked to be locking in gallery with coyote, bare necessities, and New York Times
-stage for fiction, myth, personal (like a shaman)
-had own life/death experience during war
-did music video
-ridiculous but real - fully documented
-view art as performance, object to remember the art -
"Body Tracks" Mendieta
-idea of documentation become more and more important
-idea of marks left behind
-viewer forced to become part of the critical discussion of the female
-poetic, ritualistic feel
-echo of female body and nature
-did a serie of works with similar discourse later on "Silueta" 1977 -
"The Dinner Party" Chicago
-monumental feminist work
-very large scale
-made up of needlework, china - craft traditions ("lower" end of art spectrum normally associated with female)
-look at history of women - only includes female figures to the dinner
-finding a language that is distinctly female (opposite of patriarchy)
-but still have a hierarchy even in the art work (some female "seated" at the floor due to space)
-almost a stereotyping because of the "extremeness" (the push to the other end of the usual) -
"The Bowery in Two Inadequate Despcriptive Systems" Rosler
-idea of victim photography - plenty of that in news, ad, even art (forced/posed photo to serve a point)
-wants to document but does not want the act
-believes the truth is lost behind the process
-wants to deal with class politics, special interest in the alcoholic but avoid the above
-takes pic of the location instead of the people = the site
-presented with words she hears associated with the person
-title states - it is an idea, still inadequate to the "truth"
-anti-esthetics -
"Semiotics of the Kitchen" Rosler
-comment on women stuck in kitchen while man goes to work
-has a violent feel
-goes through the alphabet with items in the kitchen
-notion of cooking show
-sort of humorous but has a dark undertone
-relate to "Cut with the Kitchen Knife…" by Hoch
-taking apart a language/content and making it your own -
"The Lightning Field" Maria
-site specific - again, out of gallery space
-metal rod in grid (400 poles) - attracts lightening
-viewer can go see - a tour of the dessert -tour bus take them at noon, drop off, pick up in 24 hours
-first look = boring, nothing to see, unimpressive
-forced to look at a landscape for 24 hours
-pole expand and contract according to the light -artificial trying to fit in a natural setting
-lightning does not happen all the time, focus on the "light" part -
"Camera Obscura" Graham
-photo taken upside-down (the idea of the device)
-conceptual art - doesn't have to do it - about idea
-can go into the system to see the process - old system, often use trees to illustrate the process
-idea human sees everything upside down, brain turns it right way up
-a projecting of a common/everyday occurrence
-straight forward concept - bring it to attention
-site/non-site relation - representation vs. reality -
"untitled (Four woemn looking in the same direction #1-4) Prince
-interest in mass circulated pictures
-works as archivist for Life Magazine
-arrange the picture in free time but not in the "common ways"
-takes picture of the picture - naturalize them
-how to be an artist on low budget =P -
"Untitled Film Still #48" Sherman
-idea of the artist being director and actress
-numbers her photos - no title
-images feels familiar - freeze frame of Hollywood film
-explore relation between photography and film
-exploring the structures that controls her life
-received grants during financial cuts on art field because her work doesn't involve the "touchy" subjects
-started to do pornographic ones -relating historic painting
-women buyers like her work - but it is a comment on the role of women (some might not know, ironic) -
"Departement des Aigies" Broodthaers
-was declared an artwork by Manzoni in 1961 - what does an "art work" do?
-focused on everything to do with the art world but the art itself (that is himself)
-reverse process of art - draws attention to how art is produced, especially in museum setting
-exhibition of ladders, barrels, carts, etc. declared self as museum director
-started "Departement des Aigies" - became its own system
-did signs for it, invites, catalogues, arching anything "eagles" (categorizing it) everything a museum does -
"Exile" Schnabel
-idea of gallery picking up street artist (graffiti, subway drawings, etc.) and publicize them
-hang out at the "scenes"
-return interest in the primitive
-artist got picked up, sold, became rich
-did 2 major gallery opening at the same time, time artist - bump up the hype for the buyers/viewers
-idea of art for capitalism
-idea of romantic/bohemian artist vs. mainstream artist
-reaturn of artist as genius -
"untitled (Cowboy)" Prince
-idea of lone artist against big company like Hollywood, corporations
-photographs add for cigarette company
-how much it cost for the ad to be in a magazine vs. the simple click of a camera to take a photo of the photo
-idea of "stealing" vs. artist's signature -
"After Edward Weston" Levine
-return of famous photographs
-also idea of photographing the photograph - print and present it the same size
-idea of the artist work more interesting than the "original"
-yet the "original" also had a source
-but making that process open for the viewer - aware that it is a copy
-opens up a much larger discourse
-torso of her son? -
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The 80s
-age of graffiti and rap
-politically conservative (respond to the radical norm in the 70s)
-return to "order" but increase in voices (the political forum of the time)
-fall of Berlin Wall - relation between east and west
-government lowering of fund due to "radical" sexual/political comments/gesture explored in the art field
-new spirit for painting
-post-modernism = critic of social and philosophy (urge to make visible those that have being surpressed in history) -
"Statements" Hsieh
-using the body as the medium
-but hard to be part of art scene as artist confined to the statements - isolated by work
-like performance art
-use of documentation, bring in question of gallery system (what is sellable, etc.) -
"Mimic" Jeff Wall
-gap between what happen and what he remembers - a staged photo
-not interested in documenting politics, interest in the representation
-locally can be read very politically (Asian market in B.C.)
-refer to "A Rainy Day" - comment on the modernity, change
-same thing - commenting on the world in scale of history painting
-idea of it being lit within (aura?) -
"Sulamith" Kiefer
-in German Pavillion
-return to traditional painting practises
-notion of heroic artist (last scale) but of humble, everyday subject
-German subject - tie with landscape (respond to paintings dominant in US)
-did other "touchy" work to do with Hitler and the Holocaust -
"Untitled (Keith)" Ken Lum
-cooperation logo with portrait (of worker, look cliché/cheesy)
-idea of identity through design, photography, text
-finding a type face that suits you
-idea of identity being a type face, an image, a logo
-comment on capitalism, branding -
"Projection on South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London, England" Wodiczko
-artist got 7 passports - can go anywhere to do things
-project a slide of Nazi sign on the embassy building at night
-when building goes to sleep, the ideology revealed
-was arrested but didn't hold because it is just light
-political gesture (small but powerful)
-kind of like graffiti, an intervention -
"Campo Santo Pisa" Hofer
-interest in documenting places of information
-focus on the architecture
-always through her perspective of the space (no photo tricks to make space look certain way)
-also idea of photos no longer as "real" -
"Prison Cell with Smoke Stack and Conduit" Halley
-reinvest in notion of medium specific discipline (modernist stance)
-know that painting is dead (the high ideas of painting is dead)
-know that abstract art = wall paper, figurative art = ad - so what to paint?
-knowing that there is no way out - make the jail house rock!
-about communication -look technological (not romantic) but is painted
-bring in traditions of painting -
"The Charm of Tradition" Steinbach
-design the shelf - take ready-mades and put on it
-idea that in real life, viewer doesn't have to look at the objects/ deal with it in different way
-idea of artist's worth - store value by gallery value (symbolic exchange value, notion of capitalism)
-ritualistic aura
-interest in display - how it transforms an ordinary object
-shoes have street value, lamp have kitsch value -
"Early morning assualt on the Metropolitan Museuam of Art, New York" Guerrilla Girls
-feminist group - never announces who they are (always wore guerrilla masks)
-acted as a group vs. art individuals (various occupation)
-pools their ideas, thoughts, money for their work
-states pacts on sexist and racist in-equalities
-keeps updating them -
"We don't need another hero" Kruger
-brands herself
-use of billboard but doesn't sell anything
-literally and metaphorically points finger at patriarchy
-idea of a print - use of repeating
-believe repeating = consciousness=recognition
-use of design background (black, white, red)
-particular esthetics (like Constructivism feel)
- dated figures/clothing -
"Truism Series" Holzer
-idea of "sleeping" way to the top
-selling to the system to continue to work against it
-also plays with gallery system (put up prints of work on street, free to take, show in gallery = high price)
-the more she sells in gallery = the more she can print (play with economy system)
-puts up idea of value
-also idea of repeating -
Tormented Self-Portrait" Bickerton
-idea of enlightened fake consciousness
-know that you are what you consume - what to do with it?
-all acting in a commercial - frightening existence
-interest in behind the scene of art gallery (use of brackets as frame) - reference to Broodthaers -
"Ushering in Banality" Koons
-the celebration of the kitsch
-actively promotes his work - was a stockbroker (knows how to invest/sell)
-interest in ready-mades (image wise) put into uncanny situations
-idea of avant garde being the front, kitsch - the "rear-garde"
-in "banality" exhibition - every sculpture made 3 times - 3 exhibition in 3 cities simultaneously
-idea that artist knows it is "bs" but it serves its function
-he is becoming what he wants to critique
-difference between believing what he says vs doing it -
"Portriat (Isabelle Graw)" Ruff
-passport photo esthetics but blown up to monument scale
-everyone has it - it is a form of identity
-but photo are no longer real (new idea with technology advances)
-can see all the imperfections
-did photos of friends and students (personal circle)
-mounted on plexi glass - brittle -
"Continuous froms with color ink washes superimposed" LeWitt
-considered self as minimalist/serial artist till 1969 - publish article on conceptualism
-believe conceptual - mystic rather than rational
-irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically
-idea of certificates, a system so work can be sellable
-Information exhibition = cards of instruction for workers to make the work (artist does not need to be there)
-work remake-able -certificate = own the idea of it since the physical object is not there
-a concept (not a perfect system) -
Period: to
The 90s
-floodgate of voices open with invention of internet
-compele globalization of the western and eastern countries -
"Monodramas" Douglas
-bought ad space on tv channels but doesn’t advertise anything (reference to Kruger)
-dragging (forcing viewer to confront) art in everyday life
-focus on film structure than product
-makes reference to other artist, familiar landscape
-no say where the work will be bracketed
-a disruption, different interpretation of ad
-medium specific - different from the art fashion (more conceptual, away from medium disciplinary style) -
"Arean #7 (Bears)" Kelley
-appears cute until closer look
-on surface, viewer wants to approach, when approach closer, viewer feel dirty
-shabby, abused in closer inspection
-idea of child caressing them, play, abuse
-idea of the precious, ppl spend hours making these for children
-understanding the culture (similar format of Koons)
-use of giant air fresheners in another work due to the smell they give off
-idea of them in battle, sad but with permanent smiles -
"Kolobrzeg, Poland" Kijkstra
-evokes notion of venus
-interest in capturing the awkwardness
-go to beaches around the world - ask to photograph ppl
-not with small camera but the whole works
0exploration of media and medium -
"Kurt" Peyton
-small in size - personal
-idea of painting
-idea of devoted fan, mainly men (famous ones?) but no longer a teenager
-artist in her 40s?
-doesn't quite look like the person - a hybrid of her vision and the person
-childish, teeny - period where one seeks their own identity (by having a "model") -
"Prototype for a New Understanding" Jungen
-interest in politics of representation
-know all the history, exchange value
-use of street culture, mass culture hand crafted into a form of First Nation motif
-the mix of the values
-play with representation - 3rd way out (easy to like but still political)
-vs. outright cynical - discover through the viewing
-not a First Nation