NPF 567 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
5 Nov 2016
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Q: dealing with idea that there isn"t a hierarchy, all accessible--everything is spread in front of you. Sth being representative of the time = receding in contemporary times. Develop understanding of current understanding of site . Site = more than only a location. Wrote in 1997 - site specificity was v trendy. Liberation from art world"s institutional power - promised freedom. More direct contact with social spaces, people who are not the usual audience. Spontaneity (maybe not with land art though) Disruptive, finding new relation between cultural aesthetics and nature. Art space no longer tabula rasa, commodified, so artists wanted to distance themselves from this. Today no longer the one art critic , but before there were conservative reactions against site-specific art. Kwon: spaces were coded, there are dissociations = objective e. g. robert ryman: phenomenological, robert smithson- spiral jetty. Nuances e. g. zen buddhism, using symbol of infinity.
