Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

conceptual image (text within conceptual art (jo spence - middle class…

- - - - against calcification of art
      - political, wanted art to be accessible to all
- - - - Keith Arnatt - Beach Burial 1969
        
        constructed, autobiographical, humorous
      - response to Dada / Fluxus movement
        
        anti-art
        
        both had uses of 'readymades' i.e Duchamp
        
        Fluxus used readymades within their art - performance, destruction
        
        links to John Cage
        
        what is 'Dada?'
        
        avant garde response to ww1
        
        Francis Picabia - Dada Movement (Movement Dada)
        
        a drawing of a 'noisy alarm' towards modern art // the piece is a wiring diagram to the 'dada alarm clock' // the current is modern art // left side is stable, negative and traditional meaning French modernism, the right side is positive, anti-traditional this is the dada artists (means Picabia himself is directly connected to the dada clock) // the left side has to pass through the dada transformer before coming into the 'inner circle' // when all of this is complete and connected the clock will tick and the bells will chime in Paris
        
        Joseph Beuys - I like America and America likes me 1974
        
        Beuys spent 3 days in a room with a coyote, flew to NYC and straight away was wrapped in felt and taken in an ambulance to the gallery - it was important that he didn't touch American soil - within his time in the gallery, regular actions were performed such as the wrapping of the felt around him like a Shepard. the coyote was cautious,detached, aggressive and companionable throughout his time. at the end of the time, he was wrapped in felt again and driven back to the airport.
        
        coyote - to the Native Americans a powerful god, but with new European settlers it was seen as a pest to be rid off. the performance was an attempt to heal the wounds by evoking a spiritual response in the audience that would start a healing process.
        
        Valie Export - Genital Panic
        
        The pieces 'Genital Panic' by artist Valie Export are both photographic and a performance. The performance saw Export performing in Munich within an art cinema wearing a pair of trousers which had a triangle cut out where her private parts were; hence placing them on display at eye level for many within the viewing area. Export walked the aisles to each row and offered members of the audience to have sex with her, whilst holding a machine gun to which was pointed at viewers. It then became rumoured that members of the audience left the theatre in silence, the accuracy of this has been denied by Export but suggested otherwise by members of the audience. The concept around this act was to confront the cliche surrounding how we see females within the cinematic industry, as objects for the male gaze.
        
        The photographic piece is a series of six identical photographs of Export sat on a bench infront of a wall made from doors, again wearing the same outfit as the performance piece,holding the same machine gun. in the photos, she is bare foot which highlights her vulnerability such as her genitals. in the performance, the gun was pointed on those in the audience. in the photos, the gun is positioned at chest level, suggested to be aimed at the viewer.
        
        Hannah Hoch
        
        Hannah Hoch is one of the first Dada artists to be using photo-montage techniques within their work, hence why she is now so heavily credited. Hoch suggested the war has completely destroyed her outlook on the modern world and as a result, she has to create a new ‘political consciousness’. Hoch was introduced to the Dada movement by her then boyfriend, Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Dada movement. As a result of this connection, she was introduced to other artists within the group. However, not all of the members appreciated Hoch’s contribution to the movement.
        
        Hoch’s work although represented the Dada aesthetic it also added a mention to feminism whilst highlighting the wrongs of society at the time. Standing alone with this concept of female equality, many of the members never full accepted Hoch into the movement. Hoch’s piece ‘Da-Dandy (1919)’ is one of Hoch’s political photo-montages, the photo montages saw the artist appropriating images and texts from the media, as a result Hoch was ironically criticising the government and the war.
        
        fluxus movement
        
        fluxus didnt agree with museums and galleries determining the value of art or that one must be educated to view and understand art. wanted art to be for the masses and to be produced all the time
        
        wanted to destroy the boundary between art and life // george stated that he wished to 'purge the world of bourgeoisie sickness'
        
        george macilunas was the primary founder
        
        movement dismissed/mocked high art
        
        ben voutier - total art matchbox 1966
        
        piece depicted a box of matches with directions = 'USE THESE MATCHES TO DESTROY ALL ART'
        
        the piece highlights the fluxus belief in anti art, like this piece, fluxus artists created a large number of the objects/pieces made to devalue their price deliberately.
  - - - subvert = undermine/change
        
        JOHN HILIARD - English conceptual artist who has an ongoing body of working addressing 'photography as a medium'. examples of Hiliard's work is ' Sixty Seconds of Light' (1970). A work created using 120 film, the 12 images in the series correspond to the 12 negatives in the film. The photos show a photographic clock within artificial light. As the photos were recorded the clock was set to 12 time duration's to which increased in five second increments.
        
        JAY DEFEO - American artist known for her works within painting, collage, photography, sculpture, and photocopying. Defeo works particularly with experimental recordings of her work, making the 3D become flat. Taking photographs of her work half way through creating it so the end result is never what 'existed' in the photos. Said to have blurred the 'boundaries between abstraction and representation' by fragmenting the images. An example of this would be her works ' The Rose' (1958-1966), the piece took more than eight years to created and weighed more than a tone. it was ten and a half feet tall and a foot thick due to the paint being led based.
  - - - John Baldassari - Cremation
        
        catharsis, got something out of the process of burning his work
      - Keith Arnatt - Self Burial
      - John Cage 4'33"
        
        inspired by white paintings
        
        believes music is talking about 'them', traffic is nobody talking but sound is acting
        
        loves the activity of sound
        
        influenced by Marcel Duchamp's 'space art'
        
        suggests most see a sound as useless, but Cage embraces them as there are no psychological or emotive strings to them, the sound doesnt have to mean anything
      - Peter Kennedy
        
        Australian artist, came to prime in the art scene around the late 1960's.
        
        use of subversion or shift of sound
        
        'snore' (1972) - sound installation
        
        reversing the drums service
      - Douglas Huebler
      - George Brecht - Event Scores
    - - ultra conceptual art
      - full ideas, minimal art
      - ideas are generally stronger than the produce
      - 'boring', 'flat', 'mundane', 'profound'
      - no emotions
- - - - involved the transportation of debris from the NY stock exchange floor to a new location
      - after several hours, it was removed and the debris thrown away again
    - - Joseph Kosuth - explored printed systems, 'realm of letter
      - comes under dance,music, theatre
        
        'conceptual dance theatre' by Kenneth King
        
        dance programs which features no dancing, i.e instead a film would be projected or a tape of talking over semantic matters = the main subject
        
        John Cage
        
        'Les Levine (movie for the blind 1969)'
    - - 4 artists = Lawrence Weiner, Daniel Buren, Mel Bachner & Sol Lewitt
      - asked by 'arts magazine' to submit a document = one page, for the April 1970 issue. ' pages served as an example of several types of art documentation used by idea artists
      - 'introduced serious questions concerning the function of an art magazine into conceptual art environment
      - 'texts about art reproductions of artwork' = what a art magazine is
        
        the texts done by these four artists, intended to evaluate as art rather than as criticism
        
        the texts themselves have become the art. the traditional use of photos in a magazine being mocked.
        
        the pages that followed were not reproductions to aesthetic criticism. they were just art.
- - - - showed the artist chalking two parallel lines for a mile long.
      - markings did not become permanent as they were chalk and so the temporary aspects of the work have been said to ‘draw attention to the passing of time’ and the concept that ‘change is constant’
    - - soho apartment with 22 inches of soil
      - therapeutic place
      - ‘waste of prime real estate’.
  - - - composed of four cylindrical concrete forms
      - positioned in a cross format and were calibrated so the four tubes frame the sun on the horizon.
      - Holt did not hide her traces of the series but instead embraced and documented the labour of the creation
- - - - conceptual photography art has "no universal, singular function or aim either"
    - - conceptualism - pre 1968 artists include names/movements such as Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Fluxus movement, Minimalism etc
        
        'Leap into the void' 1960 Yves Klein
        
        first published in a mock newspaper 'Dimanche' (parody of 'journal du mimanche')
        
        'calls into question of the 'truth of the photograph and the truth of the newspaper reporting'.
        
        suggests Klein's body as a gesture, Bate said it was like a paintbrush in space.
    - - Bate referenced the student protests of 1968 as a 'marking' of the two post war period apart.
        
        the protests were the start of social authority being questioned by forces such as feminism, political discontent and civil right movements
        
        resulting in artists too taking a more questioning approach to art, 'critical attitudes' started to appear.
      - the term conceptual art dated further than 1968, Bate used Lucy Lippard as a reference who in her book 'Six Years' stated that 'around 1960 Henry Flynt coined the term conceptual art'