VISA 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Kruger, Jackson Pollock
Document Summary
Metacritique: ubiquitous in contemporary art; critical applied to artistic practices. Montage: not restricted to 2 dimensional artworks (key term in cinema theory) Collage: fairly neutral term used to describe the process & product of gluing together mediums to produce a visual effect. Montages are usually considered to have an explicit meaningful purpose (political. Avant garde: part of the army that goes above/before the rest and critical) With art: forerunners of socialism (saint simon) believed in social power of arts. Judged primarily on quality and originality of the artist vision and ideas. Readymade: marcel duchamp -> evacuating artist from product of what hes/shes making. Arises from the premise that the world consists of objects (entities) which are perceived or otherwise presumed to exist entities, by subjects (observers) Fetish: any object endowed with cultic value or autonomous power of its own often constructed of magical or divine force which it doesnt possess.
