FILM 3660 1st Edition Lecture 19 Outline of Last 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 Outline of Current Lecture November 10 2014 1 Framings 2 The Pomona College Project 3 Institutional Critique 4 Carl Andre Equivalent VIII meets Dan Graham Split Level Ground Level 5 Haacke Real Estate Holdings 6 Daniel Buren Peinture Sculpture 7 Current Lecture 1 Framings 1 Minimalism no transcendence the spiritual meaning of art unified consciousness of the artist disinterested contemplation of the beholder socially neutral space of the gallery or museum 2 Conceptual Art No to visuality opticality Yes to language and definitional procedures Duchampian 3 Site Specificity No to autonomous space and the singular object Not object oriented Minimalists are not interested in the single object 4 Institutional Critique No to Phenomenology no to social neutrality 5 The Pictures Generation No the medium 2 The Pomona College Project Asher dematerialized this space the object has been evacuated so one can focus on site itself Open 24 hours a day dedifferentiation the inside and outside blend together from a constantly open door The open door frames the outside postmodern mixture Site Specificty Made from 2 rooms 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 3 Institutional Critique Haacke NO to the neutrality of photographic imagery Focused on repositioning the photograph with respect to its critical social political and economic possibilities photo conceptual artist with an edge view to being critical on society Buren The one artist in the course who is against minimalist phemonology the world acquires a meaning through bodily engagement He rejects this because the introduction of a constructed identity gender race and class change the bodily engagement our identity is the way we should engage with the world Reframes the museum to highlight 4 Carl Andre Equivalent VIII meets Dan Graham Split Level Ground Level What is the intention Desire to look away from intention of artist to avoid transcendence Authority over work is rejected in both pieces Homogenaity covered the U S in daily ways not just art Dark period no entertainment from these photos just to make you think Photographs talking about how art names itself 5 Haacke Real Estate Holdings Reframing conceptual art through Photoconceptualism Research project discursively is the linguistic supplement to pure visual data High Society Families and Museum were embarrassed of this piece it made people uncomfortable to challenge class earning life off backs of poor do not want to be associated with the poor The museum censored this piece Going to museums is a bourgeoisie activity Public information that has been found and reconstructed 6 Daniel Buren Peinture Sculpture Banner placed in the middle of the museum a visual interruption for viewers Buren shared this museum with minimalists they all complained about his banner through this he revealed the ideologies of a museum space Institutions frame the way you look at art Debate with Robert Morris Untitled Art Buren still believes this is too subject oriented giving too much power and authority and autonomy to the museum and site space Institutional meaning and framings must be challenged External forces shape the way we view art and the place and site we view art in