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MARCEL DUCHAMP
1912-1913 -nude descending staircase
-Invented conceptualism
-Challanged the conception that you have to be a craftsman to be an artist
-Ready-mades unassisted, recontextualization.(the fountain, bottle drying rack, bicycle wheel)
-"The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bacheolers, Even" - COLLAGE LIKE relationship between the visual imagery of the glass and the printed language in "The Green Box" allegorical narrative about the relationship of art to the bodily experience and sex.
-Artist sacrifices himself for the art
-Wanted art to be about ideas
-Allegorical, literary component
Nude descending stairs: Futurists (liked movement, didn't like nude.) Cubists (Didn't like movement)
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| "Piece: Contra Aesthetics"- Timothy Binkley |
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The Art Context
-Mona Lisa shaved can be described to you, birth of conceptual art
“Aesthetics treat aesthetic experience, not art.” Lots of things that aren’t art are aesthetic, and not all art is.
Rejects idea of artist as exemplary sufferer. He/she is a voyager searching for the authentic experience deep within their own consciousness.
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dance is traditionally ritual, a natural reaction to music. “Variations V” The dancers cause the music.
-Designed to develop flexibility of the mind
-Chance procedures in order to avoid what might come naturally
-While Grahm was reasserting nature (emphasis on gravity) Cunningham was trying to go against nature
-Duchamp “the direction in which art should turn is to an intellectual expression, rather than to an animal expression.”
-Isolation of different parts of the body
-Spliced together works- events
-first dancer to fully secularize dance, to “de-primitize” it
-His work doesn’t symbolize anything but it does serve for perceptual training
-Polyattentiveness- What John Cage calls the appreciation of two or more unrelated phenomena |
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Aspects of the Novel
E.M. Forester |
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| Story: a narrative of events in time-sequence. A plot: narrative of events with an emphasis on causality. |
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The Authentic Unconscious
Lionel Trilling |
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-Here and now is more reliable than the explanation of there and then
-The past is inauthentic, unreliable
the principle in authenticity of narration is the idea that life is comprehensible and therefore manageable. Narrative structure: beginning (the event that originates all those to come), the end (something of significance) and then a rational consciousness telling the story. This is a “mode of explanation so primitive, so flagrantly Aristotelian.” |
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-transition from modernism (abstract expressionism) to post-modernism (pop art)
-Combines, collage with non-traditional materials. Combining art and sculpture
-Neo-dada.
he wanted to work "in the gap between art and life" suggested a questioning of the distinction between art objects and everyday objects |
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Though the Abstract Expressionists disdained subject matter, it could be argued that in the end, they had simply changed subjects. Johns neutralized the subject, so that something like a pure painted surface could declare itself. For twenty years after Johns painted Flag
Target with faces
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| - It is a mistake to look for truth in beauty. In France (1859) when he wrote "The Salon" the mob believed only in nature, and that art had to be the reproduction of nature. An identical reproduction of art would be absolute art. |
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-"Against Nature"1884
-Nature can't do anything that human's can't manufacture.
-Des Esseintes- likes artificiality & eccentricity
-Afraid a commoner would like his goyas or remdrandts
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-Notes from the underground.
-an intelligent man of the 19th century should be charecterless, a character is limited
-men of action are stupid
-Misconception that man acts only in his self interest
-"suffering is the sole origin of conciousness." |
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offending the audience
-strip theater of illusionary quality. no attempt is made to conceal breathlessness
-talk real or check time |
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
-We are constantly adding new fringe of culture for reassurance (metaphysics). Sometimes we can actually replace a gesture (like remembering a characteristic without remembering the actual thing. If something doesn’t fit into a pre-existing mold we can categorize it as absurd. But the world isn’t absurd or significant, it just is.
-We use protective adjectives. |
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-The great modernists were predicated on the idea that there was a unique self from which a unique vision can be produced. But today that kind of individuality seems to be a thing of the past. The concept of individuality is idealogical.
Different essay-
-“the expansion of capitalism has penetrated the unconscious and the third world.” |
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| -Modernist. Anti-theatricality because it implies there has to be an audience. |
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-Purity of art, LESS IS MORE
-less he exploits common skills, the more the artist he is
-No texture. it's naturalistic, vulgar and mechanical
-Brushwork should be invisible (emphasizing the impersonal because handjerking, handwriting, brush strokes are too personal.)
-frame protect and isolate
-no time- art in the present
-art should not move. stillness
-purity of museum, art museum should just house art
-art for art's sake |
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