ARTH 3539 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Centre Georges Pompidou, Neue Galerie New York, Joseph Beuys
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Usa"s reception of his artwork is looked down upon. Everyone is an artist - doesn"t mean that everyone should be an artist, it just means that everyone should think of themselves as being able to contribute to society to change society. If you don"t want to think, you"ll get yourself kicked out. To be a teacher is my greatest work of art. The way i see it-art is the only evolutionary force-which means that conditions can only change from within human creativity. art=capital. Interchange of energies is the principal form of communication through art. People in the war wanted fat at any cost-sell everything to get some fat. It has high energy potential, and it is utterly malleable. Significance of the chair- chair is the closest thing to a person of all the things we make. Can be shaped, the opposite of being fixed.