Conceptual: ideas over visual appearance Conceptual Art: movement Conceptualism: broader style (way of make war) Development: identity politics turn movement into style
Civil Right
Black Power
anti-war
feminism
Protest: institutional framework
e.g.: Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) protest Whitney Museum's failure to include black artist
e.g.: Art Worker's Coalition (AWC) protest, want to control exhibition
Black Panther's identity-based revolution forms subground about "communisim", "gay identity"... other minority group
This becomes a mode of protest to be formalized...
Newton: alliance-based resistance "revolutionary inter-communalism"
complex way to say: since we all suffer, help each other
call themselves: "internationalists"
In philosophy:
analytic: statement that constains its definition "triangles have 3 sides / 3 legs"
synthetic: "triangles's area is given by a formula"
In cubism:
Synthetic Cubism: flatten out an object into a 2D image
Analytical Cubism: break down an object from multiple viewpoints and re-configure them
// COMMENT: I think I can define this notion better?
Artwork: First Investigations (subtitled Art as Idea as Idea)
First Wave (1960s): protest many aspect
artists need to be skilled
need specialist to interpret art
fixed medium
the fact that art are luxury
Similarities
reviving readymade (Duchampian)
extend Fluxus, minimalism
Second Wave (late 1960s): transition from "analytic proposition" (abstract, universal, "// WARNING self-reflexive, mirroring of idea in several iteration //" // WARNING cognitive //, better in Joseph Kosuth's opinion) to "synthetic proposition" (pop, relies on experience of the world that is outside of the realm of art, require prior knowledge, // WARNING: identity, relational(relationship to other group) )
e.g. Joseph Kosuth's words: can understand just by looking at art (without need to explain, the art berry within reading the work) // WARNING: few more dictionary definition, 3 chairs (share!! chair)
e.g. Adrian Piper: process of reading word. -> use body as art in performance in The Mythic Being (just material, not about her self, masqueraded as a character of a third world male, issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality, marginalisation, oppression )
// WARNING: index -> analytic
// WARNING: last two slide for systhetic exampel
Identity politics: equal access to resource, law, citizenship
not a class issue, but a race issue.
still unsolved even with full citizenship, mantained stratification of class and race (social group)
intersectionality: black, women, class (greater than sum)
art: representation minority
multiculturalism:
Fabulous Debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVMYfuzhbxk&ab_channel=IntelligenceSquared
// TODO: class discussion on some artwork
Index: + and - symbols from (analytic), indexes collective discoursE??? // QUESTION: ??
Hammons: Boy with Flag (1968)
Information Art: MoMA's definition, idea-based art for political
shift from conceptual art to conceptualism
shift from analytic to synthetic
Renee Green: Import/Export Funk Office (archive of oppositional American politics library, knowledge system)
contrast: voluntary / involuntary appearance of hair
tracking evolution of cultural practice (humanities course about 1960s)
Identity: a framing cannot escape
Conceptual(not perceptual) Art: mentally interesting
constraint visual to highlight concept (prefer 2D than 3D)
no complex mathematics or philosophy (?)
doesn't matter if people understand. Artists have no control (?)
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