FILM 3660 1nd Edition Lecture 9Outline of Last Lecture: – September 19th, 2014I. Redefining Key TermsII. New Key TermsOutline of Current Lecture - September 23, 2014I. PETER BURGER: Theory of Avant-GardeII. Modernist Practices and Redefinition:III. Les Nouveaux Realistes: IV. Post Modern War ArtCurrent Lecture:PETER BURGER: Theory of Avant-Garde:1. Modernism: Autonomy and Immanently normative (the meaning and parameters experience are to be found exclusively in the work itself)2. The Historical Avant-Garde (1913-1936): The critique of autonomy – attempting to reposition practices within the life practice itself. 3. The Neo-Avant-Garde (1955) – The reduction of historical avant-garde, “empty gestures and repetition” 4. Historical vs. Neo-Avant-Garde: A dialectic of historical repression memory and an aggressive mode of enforces consumption and submission and condition of the spectacle. Modernist Practices and Redefinition:- The readymade- The collage- The monochrome- The grid- ChancwLes Nouveaux Realistes: - Public Space & Architectural Dimension- The Discursive Apparatus of Consumer CultureThese 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.- An Aesthetic of the (Spectacularized) Supplement- Display DevicesPOST WAR ART:- Not just beatifying environment but also making the environment hostile “a sicrilocam ofcatastrophe” - Huge, temporary and must be removable. People have to let go and continue on with their lives. - Advertisement Slashes – Text under text under text under text, layers of posters become beautiful. Public spaces not there for socialized spaces or brainwashing, they not cluttering our mind.- Our minds are cluttered by advertisements – artists want to de-clutter – the problem with this is under the clutter there is more clutter. Impossible to be purified. - Forced you to put slashed pieces back together in new and interesting ways. - Instead of going back into the past, these pictures make you see something new and exciting in the future. - Do not admire my art – take it and democratize it. - Yeve Klein – Making a fake book with pictures he never made. The forces of our lives are copyright and advertisements and we cannot escape them. So he made fake pictures and put them in a fancy book.- Yeve Klein - As much as you want an indulgent, pure, modernism Klein reminds you that we belong to a world of commodification and art is not immune to that. - Post modern Monochrome (The Rothko Chapel – Mark Rothko) – very spiritual and silentenvironment. Conservative, Socially invasive, doesn’t give power to other dominant forces in the world. A cop-out, 1971 too late to do an art piece like this.- Arman – You want to make a portrait of someone, steal their stuff, and put it in a clear box and call it “art” – Our friends and love ones are not immune to commodity. – A memory of what people went through in concentration camps? – Night Fog Movie Clip- Not unrelated to the way we treat PEOPLE. We make a lot of different kinds of accumulation, this is not prettyPETER BURGER CAN’T BE RIGHT – something new is going on in this kind of
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