RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jackson Pollock, Outsider Art, Postmodernism

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Used around wwii to name what art is appropriate for the state and what not. Du buffet: interested in art in mental asylums and would take objects (stuff that they were not encouraged actively to make), named (cid:498)raw art(cid:499) knowledge or expertise. Why would professional artists be interested in works made by people with little. Argues that outsider art should be valued. Postmodern theory: art is art if it is intended by art so paintings like mona lisa. Argument: art that doesn"t know it"s art. Assume that this kind of art is made for the (cid:498)maker"s own delight(cid:499) as opposed to. Does art need to critically detach itself from the culture and politics. But since he is taking specific physical objects, he is using a classification system to are not considered art from this perspective making art for applause or profit determine what is art (so not everything is art) Embedded a lot of objects in the paintings: paintbrush, glass.

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