ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Grapheme, Photomontage, Chiaroscuro
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Under the rubric of marshall plan modernism. European abstract practices that are also in dialogue with. Jackson pollock in american abstraction expressionism in such a way that it returns to the question of historical avant- garde. Questions of autonomy, relationship between formal artistic practice and resistant revolutionary politics. A look at pop in relation to capitalism. Matrix helps relate pop as capital realism or a symptomatic truth. The third term between formal analysis and social history. Allows us to think about how a formal problem itself is a historical problem. How do the artworks from today"s lecture cite/reference earlier twentieth century artworks in order to mark the changes/shifts that are occurring in the real world. Pop is a symptom of the change in capitalism. Capitalism has changed over the years, just like pop. Lichtenstein"s repetition of mondrian"s idiom affectively negates/denies/fails to understand the rudiments of. Mondrian"s procedures of practice, even though the work is instantly legible as mondrian"s idiom.
