VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lee Harvey Oswald, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke
14 Apr 2013
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Dada - influential in almost all movements. Minimalism - selection, arrangement of materials - only presence of artist. Pop art - artists celebrate and question pop culture, real objects, mundane everyday. Conceptual art - dematerialization of material object, questioning all previous values, 50s - self- satisfied consumerism post-wwii; challenge of mass-media, role of women. Conceptual art - video, performance, earth art, body art etc. Pictures generation - born into swarm of images => post-war consumer culture. Economy based on need => economy based on desire. Identity isn"t innate but it"s learn by social constructions. Painting resurged - human figure - allegorical, narrative. Early modernist avant-garde - something new, not addressing the past, overturn and leave behind what went on before. Post-modernism doesn"t try to be new but draws on mass media. Lucian freud - granddaughter of sigmund freud. A man and his daughter - potential for sexual content.
