FA 77b Lecture 1: Intro Lecture
6 Feb 2017
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Mexican artist presented for the venice biennale. Empty shoebox could be making a statement of the lack of money in. The reading of it shift, due to its position in place. Reading by looking at it in conjunction with the biography of the artist. Context of the piece in terms of the history of art. The street, the gallery, the holy of holies. Generic box, different in every iteration of the exhibition. Does not feel mexican, because it lacks mexican symbols. The easier the reading, the worse the art is, sometimes. Art holds your attention, and bothers you, because you can"t figure out what it is. Duchamp creates singular things, makes singular choices. Warhol is using mass production as a means to make art. 3 million have been done in the last to hours, but he only moves one into the white cube of the gallery.
