FAH289H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Donald Judd, Handmark, Conceptual Art
8 May 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Judd: donald judd, "specific objects, abandoned painting and began reliefs and free-standing objects, modern art now referring to 3d, minimalist, box-like forms. Interest in forms, not images: 3d - real space to move in, no limit, illusionism (like in painting; creating fake depth, work needs only be interesting as a whole. Finds judd"s claims too literal: finds modernism to be decadent; theatricalizes relation between object and beholder. Typified by: use of language in art, no sign of artist hand/mark, meaning is open, unlike minimalism, concept is very important, reaction to minimalism. "the death of the author" - barthes: artist/author does not give all the meaning to a work - meaning is created in process of comparing, reading, understanding by reader, multiple meanings open to interpretation. Links to semiotic theory (signs) - expressing meaning in relation of signs: decentering of the author, author does not command the reading, activation of the viewer towards idea/process in art.
