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Marilyn Monroe Diptych - Andy Warhol

Pop culture, concerned with the commerical

Repetitiory

Commodity imaging

Reality under the glamour of fetishes and media stardom

Desymbolize the object

Releasing the image from deep meaning into the symulacral surface.

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One (Number 31) - Pollock

Abstract Expressionist

Lines that are usually made to create a picture, doesn’t happen in Pollock.

Line becomes color. Usually it is two opposing parts to create a painting, but here they come together, and the lines between the two are becoming blurred.

Clement Greenburg: Critic, wrote a book called Modernist Painting.

·      1. ALL ABOUT OPTICS, ALL ABOUT THE ART and painting, flat image. Everything is about vision, and looking and your eye interpretation. About flatness. Optical Plenum (Space that is completely filled with matter) Pictorial Moralities (Procedures that one goes through to create a picture, we are seeing procedure the person went through. About form and color. )

TJ Clark: Marxist historian.

·      2. ALL ABOUT FIGURES, surrealism and exploring the subconscious. Trying to cover up, and erasing figures, which are underneath the image. *Countered because there is nothing underneath. The whole thing becomes one image. Pure form of image making that is in the primitive time is what Pollock is trying to go back to. Hand prints, allusion to caveman paintings and is a form of figuration in that way. (Going back to the origins). If you look at them as a whole you see landscapes, nature

Robert Morris – artist (the process artists)

·      3. POLLOCK’S PROCESS Creating a different relationship between the artist and the work. Anti-form, it is about destroying form because of the way his body interacts with the work. (We became humans when we stood up, vision and sight became more important.) Gives into gravity, and gives into the animalistic aspect of our experience.

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Automobile Tire Print - Cage and Rauschenberg

Dada Redux

Scandal against abstract Expressionism

Weapon against the expressive mark

He put together the ready-made, and the imprint

Neo Dada

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Free Wheeler - Twombly

Recoding the autographic mark as a form of graffitti against Abstract Expressionalism.

"Criminal violation"

SElf-recognition

Residue strikes against the author and the surface.

Drive authorial self-presence.

Repitition and randomness is the strategy for non-composing.

Neo Dada

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Flag - Jasper Johns

Encaustic painting

Makes the painting an object as well as an image.

"Pipe dream" in newspaper - an allusion to Magritte's "This is not a pipe" painting.

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Wall of Barrels, Iron Curtain - Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Neo Avant-Garde

About the Cold War

Berlin Wall

Situate worked in public space, transformation of collage-decollage

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Ach Alma Manetro - Villegle and Raymond Haines

Aesthetics of industrial production or collaboration

Collaborations between artists

Collaborative principle

decollage

Identifying their work with dileberate acts of vandals

allover structure of textuality

first postwar activity to resituate artistic production in the urban architectural space

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Newspaper Music - Knowles

Fluxus art

"to flow"

Asked why art had to be a specialized thing in a specialized place (museum)?

Broaden art into use of our bodies and actions

Deskilling

art by all peoples

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Modular Structure - Sol Le Witt

Constructivist

Neither architecture, nor furniture

Conceptual Art

classifying things, arranging things, system, legal, self-reflexive. Art becomes about itself. Critique of visual. Dispensed with contingent. Deskilling. Photoconceptualism – photography, important medium. Influenced by minimalism, abstract art, and the ready-made.

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Cast of the Space Under My Chair - Nauman

Explored the delpletion of artistic meaning except for their titles

Overdetermined by entorpy

Abstract art

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Every Building on the Sunset Strip - Ruscha

Entropy

aesthetic critic of the vernacular

The book can be read in both directions

photographed at noon

anonymous nothingness

humour noir (dark humor)

a world depleted of difference, and thus of meaning.

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12 Cavalli - Kounellis

signifies Italy's continuing connection to a preindustrial, rural economy.

Critique on the gallery, becomes a barn

Arte Povera - need to repositiona rtwork within socially shared spaces of political activism

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Corridor Installation - Nauman

Using video as art

Double disloacation between action and image

As the person got closer to the monitor, the image of their back walked the opposite way and receeded.

preceiving body, and precieved body

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Trademarks - Acconci

Performance art

indexical mark

Owned himself, fully. Claiming himself.

Turned his flesh into a graphic medium of indentation

Autographic mark in art

Absolute self-possession

He was an active subject, and a passive object

Body art

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Post-Partum Document - Mary Kelly

THird phase of Feminish Art

Mixes different images and texts into a double narrative

explored the possibility of female fetishism

archaeology of weaning

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The Government Has Blood on its Hands - Gran Fury

Explored homosexuality as a subject in art

The art communities suffered much with AIDS related deaths

Colors and images that bordered on kitsch

Art wars, people would put up AIDS propaganda on billboards

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Untitled - Gonzalez-Torres

Concerned with making a gay subjectivity

wrapped candy that is red white and blue

Sweets, "fruits" represent gay community, and the colors represent the U.S.

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Billboard of Bed - Gonzalez-Torres

Lashing out against anti-gay legislation

criminalizing the bedroom

absent lovers

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Strange Fruit - Leonard

Strange Fruit

critique on gender identity

wanted to construct a gay identity

Coming to terms with loss

peeling and sewn back together once the fruit was extracted.

works toward social change

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Untitled, Free - Tiravanija

Cooked and served Thai curry vegetables over jasmine rice in the back of a gallery.

Dislocation of space.

Confuse the conventional roles of art, artist, viewer, and intermediary.

"The art dealer"

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Cornered - Piper

Racial identity

Chairs to protect her from backlash,or representing backlash that has already taken place.

Racial inequity, civil rights issues.

Angered because she could pass for a white person, and would hear racist commentary.

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Untitled, The Kitchen Table Series - Weems

Frames racial imaging for critical reflection

shows a harmonic family doing everday things

Just like a white family would

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The Water Bearer - Simpson

Frames racial imaging for critical reflection

Combines photography and text

About racial issues and identities.

Spilling the water, releasing her burden

Action of refusal

Contrapposto references Greek statues

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Untitled, "I feel most colored..." - Ligon

Plays with the legibility of race

Black on white, white on black

Formal issues of modernist pantings into text

Questioning of abstraction and signification

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Untitled - Gober

Stages adult desires

"What is a sexual object, and for whom"

Surrealist aethesthetic

"natural history dioramas about contemporary human beings"

Truncated body, nt fully whole.

Aleatory

Collides different levels of meaning or different kinds of signs together.

art coming together by chance

Spectacle Culture

New stage of advanced capitalism

Consumption, leisure, and image mean mre than before

commodity of the image

spectacle is capital

Simulacral

A representation that is not literally tied to an object in the world.

Ex. Warhol's Monroe Diptych, it is a representation of Monroe, but not Monroe itself, it is reprinted and copied over and over again.

A copy without an "original"

Flat-Bed Picture Plane

Retrieval of Obsolescence

Deskilling

Anyone can do art.

The body and person and movements can become art.

Institutional Critique

The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation

Having to do with feminism and feminist art.

Politics determines how art of women is represented.

raise consciousness about feminist art.

Detournement

deflection, diversion, rerouting.

Turning something aside from its normal cause or purpose.

Its when some form of art is reworked into a meaning that is directly antagonistic to the original.

Politics of Representation