FILM 3660 1st Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture November 3 2014 Minimalism 1 Lars von Trier The Five Obstructions 2 Obstruction 5 The Perfect Human 3 Lars Gratitude 4 1965 Robert Morris 5 Transcendence 6 Composition 7 L Beams by Robert Morris 1965 8 Meaning Outline of Current Lecture November 5 2014 1 3 Themes of Transcendentalism 2 Dan Flavin Monument for V Taylin 3 Carl Andre Equivalent 1966 4 Wittgenstein Mereau Ponty Barthes Freid 5 Ed Ruscha from Twenty Six Gasoline Stations 1962 Artist s photo book 6 Aesthetic Autonomy 7 Top Hat Questions Current Lecture 1 a b c 3 Themes of Transcendentalism Intrinsic Meaning in works of art The artist can control that meaning Sphere of Composition when you take the artist out of the work the real space is lost you are no longer worried about what the artist did during creation but instead what you are doing Environmentally spatially and contextually phenomenology 2 Dan Flavin Monument for V Taylin Serial Industrialized construction the HOME DEPOT project These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Communistic government communist minimalist art minimalist art is atheistic no religious dogma Religion always introduces transcendence and this piece is egalitarian and democratic 3 Carl Andre Equivalent 1966 Shared public access anyone can make this and there is no privacy No movement and no spiritualization Deflating transcendence and movement what am I looking at Where is my entry point How will I know how or who made this 4 Wittgenstein Mereau Ponty Barthes Freid Comfort in death of artist Minimalist has taken depth away from artist and giving in to the spectator In conceptual art you must understand that there is a degradation of visual expression visual withdraw your eyes do not do the work Conceptual artists take this to the extreme Participant model your responsibility for meaning of the work Michael Freid o Intrinsic use medium specificity ITS ALL ABOUT THE OBJECT o Theatricality engages space around it and ruins guidelines between art and the environment o Presentness minimalist works of art are just present Presentness is grace As soon as we talk about grace transcendence is added back into art debates for minimalist 5 Ed Ruscha from Twenty Six Gasoline Stations 1962 Artist s photo book Drove from OK to CA and along the way he took pictures of gas stations and put them into a book The title came before the pictures he likes the word gasoline and he likes the number 26 The pictures are not arty the dead pan images are not allowed to decide whether or not it is beautiful not that interesting mechanical I don t even know if it is art The conceptual artists were anti aesthetic collection of ready mades facts Using a serial medium sterility of American landscape Visual Withdraw You are supposed to be looking at something interesting and the artist doesn t give that to you what am I looking at Emphasis on the distribution form Artist do not go to work on the content of art but in the way that it was distributed photograph in a book no original books just copies Not original distribution form 6 Aesthetic Autonomy Arts job is to give us a space for our thoughts Minimalist Optimality Autonomy vs conceptualism linguistic Minimalist Uniqueness of a work including singularity vs conceptualism mechanical reproduction Minimalist Intrinsic meaning vs conceptualism supplementation Supplement Aesthetic of the supplement is when an external form 7 Top Hat Questions ANSWER A ANSWER B