ARTH 103 Lecture 13: Pop Art; Minimalism, Conceptualism, Performance; Neo - Expressionism & Figurative Art; Modernist & Post-Modernist Theory
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Social construction of consciousness: campbell soup cans - andy warhol (1962) Part of everyday texture, reality of his life. Flatness - metaphor for consumerism, mass production. Silk screen; each has slightly di erent pigmentation. Marilyn created hollywood for image, mass media culture. Minimalism: what you see is what you literally get. Focus of mind / perception on particulars of subject. Political implication in the 60"s towards looking at things di erently, a fresh eye towards the world. How to explain pictures to a dead hare . Spiritual conduit lecturing to a dead rabbit; revivifyteach about art. Social sculpture - shapes society by shaping thinking. Devastation of war; hay is metaphor for regrowth. Image of godless world - no will, no capacity. Ironically, the fullest realization of enlightenment values. No impartial truths, di erent perceptions of reality. To be opposed due to their loyalty to traditional ideas and established values of institutions.
