Lesson 12

Our Questions and Linda's answers

Conceptual art

-work of visual art need not be visual

-a way of presenting ideas

-art should emphasize thinking

Conceptual artist 1960s - 70

-intention of the artist

-artist - owner

Outsider's art

-explore automatism

-appreciate children and mental patients' drawings

Write about the creation process

Douglas Huebler

-set of photographs of 13 locations

Duchamp's Large Glass

-documentation

-not yet completed

Ed Kienholz's "concept tableaux"

George Brecht (Fluxus)

Conceptual Art -> painting is dead

-not have to be traditional media

-not too concerned with exploring the medium specificity

-thought concepts = specificity

Josef Albers

- art is concerned "How" not "What"

- with the performance of fractual content

Vito Acconci

-following piece

Jens Hoffmann

-Curator vs Creator

-very abstract and hyper figurative

Christian Boltanski

-archive as art event

Zoe Leonard

-synesthesia - exchanging of sense

Evelyn Glennie

-touch the sound

The Real Thing [Book]

-contemporary Art in China

Gao brothers

-The Utopia of 20 mins Embrace

-www.gaobrothers.net

Du Xinjian [painting]

Peter Gidal -> Essay of structural film

-The shape of the film is crucial, the content peripheral

each film -> record

-not reproduction, representation