ARHI 43481 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Haim Steinbach, Jeff Koons, Allan Mccollum
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Think about media how something might be both working within and against a particular tradition e. g. , of painting, photography, sculpture, etc, kitsch- art that"s too easy becomes suspect. Makes avant garde art popularized and easy to understand can apply to anything commercially reproducible for the masses: readymade. Jeff wall useful significance has disappeared and now has a new meaning shifts art making away from the act and to the act of choosing context is important. Violence on an individual scale vs armies on a larger scale. Ballerina is standing over space above chaos but still intact. Puts conventions of commercial picture making in his art: commodities and consumption. The viewer is a shopper, passion for the consumerist code seems to supersede use. Identical multiples, interest in pop culture and everydayness value and aesthetic value. Pretend to engage in a critical annihilation of mass cultural fetishization but in doing so they reinforce it even more.
