FAH246H1 Lecture Notes - Erased De Kooning Drawing, Museum Of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionism
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Three flags, 1958: thinking of relationships between medium, artist, viewer. John cage, robert rascuhenberg, automobile tire print ink on paper mounted on canvas: takes apart, philosophically and so forth, the idea that the artist is a tube of paint who creates art that just comes out from his inside. 1950s-70s: some of most monumental shifts in art. Simplest and most automatic imprint of a tire, not too different from the heart-and-soul gestures of abstract expressionists. Neutrality and withdrawal , evacuation of the sense of artistic control. Further removal of artist as author of work. R knocked on d kooning"s door, asking him if he could borrow one of his drawings to. Erase. so d k decideds to give him a challenge: double-sided page that almost seems impossible to erase, and r spends a month with an eraser painstakingly erases everything.
