ART 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Joseph Beuys, Cello, Nam June Paik
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Marcel duchamp is in the background of this. Reaction against pop art which was thought by this group to be very commercial. Immediate sources: tied to avant-garde performance such as at the judson dance group including bob rauschenberg. Done according to pre design ideas/ permutations. Create a wooden box and buries the box in a hole he dug. You have the memory of it but thats all thats left, the object is gone. He regards the instructions as the art if you read what he says you can visualize it without the physical object. The object is simply a residue from the original ideas. All combinations of arcs from four corners (1976) Instructions set out configurations of ways these arcs might be set out. Painted on the wall for a show at dwan gallery. When the show was over the wall was painted over and it was gone. The idea and concept is what matters here.
