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Contemporary Art, Key:, Marking Time - Coggle Diagram
Contemporary Art
Objecthood
Specific Objects
- 3-dimensional work
- " Much of the motivation in the new work is to get clear of
these forms"
- Disinterest in painting and sculpture, want to do something different
- New work resembles sculpture but isn't
- "Three dimensions are real space"
- Use of viewer knowledge
- Likes the term "literalist art"
- Painting on the verge of exhaustion
- Shape is a main component
- Possibly can be classified as theater
- Hidden naturalism
- What the object is made of or what the shape is, do not mean anything
A Short History of Minimalism #
- What you see is what you see
- Talks a lot about Judd's "Specific Objects"
- Starting point for minimalistic art might be Judd's first solo show
- 'minimalism' = lazy term in Judd's eyes
While I don't fully understand objecthood, I do enjoy minimalistic art. It leaves so much for the audience to interpret and I truly appreicate that. The artist gives the audience the power of interpretation and that allows everyone to have a different experience.
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Sculputre/Painting
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James "Yaya" Hough
I am the Economy
This is one of my favorite pieces from the semester. It says so much about the U.S prison system and how it sees the people that go into the system. It shows how the system objectifies humans and simply sees them as money makers.
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- Anything is sculpture it seems
- Minimalistic sculpture has many critics
- The logic of sculpture and the fading of it
- "it was the early sixties
that sculpture had entered a categorical no-man's-land"
- Inverse logic
- Logically expanded field
- Landscape & not-landscape
The Skin of the Earth # #
- Can sculpture be a trap?
- Sculpture is both physically and mentally threatening
- "the trap models its creator"
- "function as decoys for bodily fears by miming the
architectures and technologies of war, discipline, and state control"
- A way of critiquing institutions
- Insperation from urban settings and military history
- situated in liminal spaces
- "sculptures-as-traps interject into the here and
now, miming a believable world"
These are probably my favorite mediums when it comes to art. I personally think they are the most expressive and best at conveying feelings that the artist is trying to get across.
Mary Miss
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Battery Park Landfill
This is my favorite piece by Mary Miss. It's just extremely visually appealing to me and I was just instantly drawn to how the circular cutouts replicate the sun setting.
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Performance
- Referred to as body art, live art, action art
- liberating to the performer
- not always about art
- performance is a process
- its productive
- each has a place and time
- needs an audience or participants
- some leave nothing behind while others do
- frame of the event is important
I personally don't fully understand the appeal of Performance art, however, I can appreciate it for what it is. Would I actively go and watch performance art? No, probably not. It's not something that speaks to me. I would much rather go to a museum and look at sculptures and paintings, rather than go and watch someone stand nude and do some kind of dance (of course I know not all performance art is this way).
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Carolee Schneeman
Interior Scroll
This performance piece was very uncomfortable for me to see/hear about. While I only saw pictures of the performance, it made me not want to know anymore about it as it was a bit disturbing for me to see a woman pulling a rolled up scroll out of her genitalia.
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Film
Michelle Handelman
Beware the Lily Law
One of my favorite pieces from this whole semester. This made me feel for the people in this film. I paired this with performance art because I see this as a performance peice. Wheather or not it is, I'm not sure. I personally think everyone should watch this film as it truely gives a different perspective that many people will never see or understand, and I think it helps to help people understand.
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While I very much enjoy film, the films we covered in this course were not my cup of tea. The only one I would watch again would be Beware the Lily Law. It was very emotional and kept my attention the entire time. A good portion of the films that were shown I couldn't watch as they consisted of flashing lights and jarring sounds which are hard for me to deal with. #
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American Avant-Garde
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Paul Sharits
I was only able to watch about 2 minutes of this due to the flashing lights and the jarring sound. I was a bit horrified by what I did see and it made me extremely uncomfortable.
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Marking Time
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- Art creation and programs in U.S prison systems
- "Prison art practices resist the isolation, exploitation, and dehumanization of
carceral facilities"
- Art made in prison is more than popsicle sticks
- Federal Bureau of Prisons has regulations for art made in prison
- Immates are able to sell art but prison gets a percent
- Prison art rather than Prisoner art
- Prisons thrive on limiting the field of vision
-A majority of art stays behind bars
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