MPC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conceptual Art, Photomontage, Migraine
25 Mar 2016
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Dada = absurdity, protest, anti-art, anti-politics, anti class devision. Fuck the establishment, let"s do something fun". Tearing squares, letting them fall, pasting them down screw you craft . Creative work of art that doesn"t need to look beautiful / have symbolic meaning / look like art. Looking back to art movements and using some tools and techniques, making them their own art. Not high art in the way its constructed or in the materiality. Critique man who sent man to war, many of them maimed / injured. Challenges us to see where the art is. Daum marries her pedantic automaton george in may 1920, john heartield is. Mechanical artist mechanical being interest in machines. Absurd elements tongue and cheek, inside jokes hand reaching for her breast, lace on shorts, Cut with the kitchen knife dada through the last weimar beer- belly cultural epoch of germany 1919-1920. Political climate, what she was interested in, what she was thinking.
