ARTH 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Vanessa Beecroft
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Maurizio cattelan: nods back towards conceptual precursors. Jeff koons: an artist who provided a model for hirst and the rest of ybas, an apologist for the appeal of commodity aesthetics, a spokesperson for the guilt free embrace of kitsch, fabricates icons of the everday. Takashi murakami: came across koons" art during his new york residency in 1994, developed pop fusion between art and business, works as a kind of branding studio, worked with many celebrity figures. Immateriality online: new media and early net art. New media institutions: 1989 pivotal for new media as for contemporary art as a whole, zkm center for art and media karlsruhe founded in 1989, wasn"t until 1997 that it got its building. Net. art: refers to a specific group of early internet artists active since 1994. Appropriation and remixing internet enables and endless amount of appropriation and remixing.