HAVC 141B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pictorialism, Kazimir Malevich, The Steerage
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Keywords: readymade: retinal art, appropriation, use value, exchange value, aesthetic value, autonomy (of art, counter-relief, monochrome, suprematism, russian formalism, ostranenie making strange , constructivism, neoplasticism. Why are people still invested in the autonomous status of art: autonomy: the specialness of art. It"s separate from the world, social life, and institutions in its own right. Seen as artistic freedom, but is starting to be commodified as it"s procured and sold more readily. [judge the aesthetic value of the art] duchamp: the viewer determines what they see in the artwork. Bad art is still art, the way a bad emotion is still emotion. Influenced by avante garde poets: flouting rules of language and reason, object itself is meaning, ideas from the mind are worthless, believed in extreme reduction. Internal movements of personality: kasimir malevitch, 0. 10 exhibit or last futurist exhibition, 1915, the 0. 10 number implies he"s starting over again, he was seen as an otherworldly mystic, painting: kazimir malevitch, suprematism no.