ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Land Art, Donald Judd, Free Speech Movement
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An article of trade, especially a product as distinguished from a service. Sculpture based movement by generation of artists who rejected painting as a medium too commercialized. Painting = too much baggage after abstract expressionism. Simplified approach to sculpture in which central principle = presence and literalness. New kind of sculptural production that made extensive use of industrial materials to achieve a much sought-after neutrality. Sculptural form resolutely embodied its own formal properties: color, shape, surface. Invested in effects of light (light & space) Movement that uses natural landscape to create site-specific structures and sculptures. Site-specific: artwork dependent upon a carefully thought-out location; often public lands or outdoor urban environment. African-american desire for self determination, visibility, and nationhood that resurfaced in form of artistic expression. Expressed economic hardship through pictures of life struggles; often depicts. Expressed economic hardship through pictures of life struggles; often depicts working class and their heroic labor.
