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Contemporary Art - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Works are autonomous
      - Artist use smaller parts to create unified whole
      - "Imperative to defeat or suspend its objecthood" Fried, argues the following
        
        Not art but instead embodies objecthood
        
        Is incurably theatrical (relies on duration experience and of the beholder to garner meaning )
        
        Thinks art should not be theatrical as theater already exists as its own entity
        
        Exists in a situation(not autonomous)
        
        If art loses autonomy then what is its point? Its theater, a situation you stumble into . Art has meaning in itself. Does not like that all the meaning comes from the inexperienced viewer and not from the art itself
      - Arent making an object, making a work of art
        
        Works of art are in some respects, not an object
        
        Once the work is complete the artist stands outside of it and the artwork has its own unity and life
  - - - Action Painting on the floor
      - Notion to medium specifity
      - Exploration of medium :lower_left_paintbrush:,canvas, surface and texture
    - - American Flag, painted on wood:collage
    - - Oil on canvas
      - "Zips", split the color field of the painting
        
        Zip standing alone
      - portrays sculptural quality as well as painting challanges itself
  - - - Material:steel
      - Autonomous as a whole: individual parts/pieces compose the whole
      - Stable sense
      - Does not rely on anything else than than itself
    - - Spatial unity
      - Individual pieces held together
    - - Holds itself up
      - Internal Unity
  - - - Adopted manufactured materials and incorporated found objects; planned their pieces on paper
    - - Complaints as hw was annoyed that the critics kept labelling him as minimalist as he believed minimalism was a lazy shortcut used to oppress artist
      - Judd is still a very well known minimalist today:known for his glossy metal box sculptures
        
        work
        
        Geometric boxes made of wood and coated in paint
        
        abstract/inorganic forms
        
        ramps ,shelves,etc
        
        no way to interact withe pieces or meaning attained
        
        intentional lack of content was an affront to established art world tastes
      - "Believed that a work only needs to be interesting" means offering a uniques instantaneous aesthetic experience
    - - less can be more as long as you have more of the less part
    - - does not have to represent anything, document reality or communicate the artists individuality
      - unique experience as the meaning resides on the viewer and not the maker and the time context
- - - - argues that colonial racism has pschopathoilogical effects :fosters mentally disturbed behaviour
    - - prevents the colonized from developing an independent sense of identity
      - western culture : white =purity/good, black= impure /evil ;colonized learn to equate blackness with evil
      - prevents colonized individuals from developing a sense of self:the advent of cultural studies
      - grow up aspiring to be white
      - sense of alienation as to doubt who they are and with whom they should identify
    - - colonial racism is also a socio economic issue: uses ideas from Marx and Lacan
    - - teaches its citizen that the only way to be human is to be white :agonizing positions
  - - - Colonialism which stifles the free will of the colonized is shown to be inherently dehumanizing
  - - - cultural assimilation :equality
      - colonization:Black people have nothing. White people have everything
    - - Social and Political system of representation of values
      - to persists in Blackness is a form of non-being
  - - - The audience(beholder)becomes subject within a situation where they encounter /experience objects
      - Blackness precludes the possibility of attaining this sense of being subjectivity
    - - Ontology:having a being or an essence
      - No Being for the Black Man
  - - - Fugitivity to blackness
      - Blackness is insofar as it is not ,because it can never be
      - Blackness is the thing that racism represents
- - - - Oskar Fischinger ,An Optical Poem ,1938
        
        Unifiing sound and image relationships
        
        early stop motion
      - Walter Ruttman Litchtspel:Opus,1921
        
        Handmade Fashion
        
        Intermedial :unifies art and technology
        
        time and duration offers what static art cant
        
        oil paint on glass: recorded frame by frame
        
        temporal rhythm of visual events
        
        Middle ground:black and white art and music ,much like Krauss in her diagram makes a new kind of artist
      - Man Ray ,Return to Reason ,1923
        
        objects randomly on film stock
        
        filmstock is the manipulated medium
        
        combining these elements to take up film as a sculptural form ,tactile medium to be manipulated over
      - Cynatype(developed 1840's)Anna Akkins ,Crystoseria Grannlata,1853
        
        placed plant on photo graphite paper, made a direct imprint
  - - - small handheld camera
      - circular narrative :investigates 4 different version of herself that manifests over time
      - resists logic of Hollywood narratives
    - - forefather of American Avant Garde film :takes film and tries to elevate it to different artistic level by focussing on expressive abilities of the camera
      - extension of artists eye :internal vision of the artists worldly experience
      - similar to Abstract Expressionism (Jackson Pollock)
      - edits very quickly
      - starts painting scratching the fimstock
      - a new way of looking at the world through all potentials of the moving image
    - - 16mm film
      - critical sound -image relationship
      - tongue in between succors bladed :looks like he mutated himself
      - mandala cycle :made around Vietnam war
      - physical act that film and cinema can take on, a form of tactility bothy to the filmship and audience psychological response
      - Destroy-His Straw -History sound keeps changing
      - flicker attack the eye ,locate you in your body
      - speaks to your own bodily vulnerability
  - - - camera slowly looms into picture on the wall
      - audio waves follow a sin curve
      - beginning and ending events emerge that make us consider what's going on
      - endless progressions forward ,can't and won't be stopped
  - - - the integration of cinema into spaces of art after 1990 must be seen as abiding by an interplay between old and new media , where cinema is both an old medium in which one might encounter the redemptive possibilities of the outdated model and an new technology that has wrought dramatic change to the place of moving images
      - Responds to Chrissie Iles "Into the Light "exhibition Symbolized acceptance of the projected image in galleries
    - - double image
      - large scale video installations
- - - - thinks about how the art merges with daily life
      - does not like how the art world operates ,the way its sectioned off from soceity
      - Happenings :Kaprow and his friends would do things events where no would notice or pay attention
      - Peanut butter sandwich all over car, wipe sandwich across the hood ,lick the jam
      - audience is participants for the event
    - - tall sheets of paper
      - jumps through it like it is the canvas
      - remains are the artwork
      - suggests artists as the sight of action /performance
      - intervention into painting create a foundation into understanding performance art
  - - - sits on a stage in front of an audience
      - audience members line up to cut a piece of Onos clothing and take it home as their art object
      - becomes nuder seeming more violated
      - selling of an art object ,presentation of the artists body becomes an integration of culpability
    - - her most famous film
      - landmark in structural and experimental filmmaking and expanded media :fuses the bodies of the film with the material the film stock itself
      - unsimulited sexual content
      - collages or the film stock itself
      - portrait of sexual bodies
      - depiction of the female body as an sexual body is that she is criticized for ,rejects the critics
    - - born without arms
      - presents herself unclothed
      - references the Vet figures of antique beauty at the time
      - society does not show beauty in the disabled ,not a common representation
      - talks about visit to the doctor
      - reclamation of the female body as that is beautiful and sexual
      - mark of an artists woman's experience in the world
    - - performance
      - guy puts himself under extreme situation
      - public art opening
      - Vietnam war -different sense of burden
      - audience never intervenes -passively watches
      - about the audience and their ability feel they can intervene on behalf of the artists
      - body abstracted from being human
- - - - moves beyond the new negro movement
      - Civil rights era cannot deny the presents ,moves past pure positivity
      - 16th st Baptist Church bombing -4 young girls killed
      - helped lead to the passing of the civil rights act in 1964
      - direct dealing with this past :boy carefully pulls through the wreck age ,not shying away ,working through disaster
      - began critiquing the characterization of African Americans
      - Angel of history atop the wreckage of Birmingham reflecting a new way for ward- does not deny the racism or legacy of slavery continues to fight
    - - Priviledge the figure /representational body
      - Fascination with visual narratives of history particularly African Diaspora
      - Commitment to making art available to wide audiences through visual and political legibality
  - - - establishes themes that will run through her career
      - sun/moon cosmic connection ,mystics
      - unicorn tamed by virginal maiden
      - unicorn force for good
      - maiden stands against the tradition whiteness of the unicorn :shapely ,nude black woman creates contrast
      - emphasis on the female body
      - precedes feminist art movement of the 1970s's
      - Anticipation ,1961, serigraph
        
        self portrait -pregnant with first daughter
        
        awaiting the first baby
    - - alternatives believe system -familiar to a new way of spirituality
      - female body representation
  - - - balance tension of large steel pieces vs fine articulation of curved and linear forms
      - speaker to modernist sutulptures
    - - Malcom X assassinated as it was being created
      - sociopolitical reading speaks to the combo of elements that forms that triangle and visual upward thrust
      - commemoration -lifting Malchom X
- - - - sculpture is historically bound ,gives logic to its medium
      - inseparable from the logic of the monument
      - logic of sculpture is a commemorative representation
      - It sits in a particular place and speaks in a symbolical lounge about the meaning /use of the place
      - the historically specific logic of sculpture -monumental commemorative
      - Marcus Aurelius thinks Gates of Hell is a failed monument but a monument nonetheless
  - - - geological time
      - bare landscape ready to be marked -human interaction -grand gestures
    - - traveling to sight is apart of the work /experience
      - varies with time of the day
      - disorienting landscape and space ,marked by human-artists role marking the landscape for human interaction /experience
  - - - see yourself on screen
      - smaller when closer
      - missing because its a live tape
    - - spaces nearby towns and other spaces
    - - does not have a bottom
- - - - 16mm -tonal range
        
        final frame leaves episode in complete darkness
      - made for gallery setting
      - light concentric off the mans chest, reflects on his face
      - searing burned quality
      - swirling film grain in high contrast form
      - constantly changing set of conditions :light ,mans face /action ,value range
      - connected to an idea of labor -man struggles to blow out candles ,slowed quality makes it seem painful for him
      - rich formal detail esp in the smoke:dark background vs burned out foreground -negotiation of the space with the figure
      - tonal range speaks to something more social life ,the passage of time ,labour