criticism
“There is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production.”
-Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”
“the entire enterprise of art making provides the ground for finding the limits and possibilities of certain kinds of behavior and that this behavior of production itself is distinct and has become so expanded and visible that it has extended the entire profile of art. This extended profile is composed of a complex of interactions involving factors... See more
“I WILL REFER TO THE KIND of art in which I am involved as conceptual art. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. * When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that make... See more
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
“the problem was to base art making on something other than arrangements of forms according to taste.”
Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making
https://www.artforum.com/print/197004/some-notes-on-the-phenomenology-of-making-34191
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Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making
https://www.artforum.com/print/197004/some-notes-on-the-phenomenology-of-making-34191
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When art, which was the common language of social inaction, becomes independent art in the modern sense, emerging from its original religious universe and becoming individual production of separate works, it too experiences the movement that dominates the history of the entirety of separate culture. The affirmation of its independence is the beginn... See more
Society of the Spectacle
“In object-type art process is not visible. Materials often are. When they are, their reasonableness is usually apparent.”
Anti Form
https://www.artforum.com/print/196804/anti-form-36618
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Anti Form
https://www.artforum.com/print/196804/anti-form-36618
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Bishop, Installation Art
Explores the evolution and significance of installation art, emphasizing viewer experience, interaction, and contextual engagement, while outlining historical influences and notable artists in the field.
Link“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”