Mind and Matter |
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"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem." - Reverend Jerry Falwell
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Minimalism |
Many artists in the 60s expressed an urge to dematerialize the art object |
Minimalists sought to rid art of everything that was not essential |
They often rejected painting in favor of exploring sculptural and everyday materials |
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Tony Smith. Die. 1962. 6
X 6 X 6 ft.
Fineberg,
Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. Second ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2000. |
Carl Andre. Steel Magnesium
Plain. 1969. 6 X 6 ft.
Fineberg,
Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. Second ed. Prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2000. |
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Donald Judd. Untitled. 1965
http://www.mariabuszek.com/ucd/ContemporaryArt/Exam2.1.htm |
Judy Chicago. Rainbow Picket. 1966.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/judy_chicago.php?i=1564 |
Judy Chicago and the Primary Structures Exhibition
Maya Lin. Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1980 - 1982.
http://cmuarch2013.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/vietnam.jpg
Maya Lin's design for the memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MayaLinsubmission.jpg
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Viewers walking by the memorial
http://www.mariaworks.com/UOP/3/DC/images/vietnam-memorial.jpg
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Frederick Hart. The Three Soldiers. 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Three_Soldiers.jpg
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Glenna Goodacre. The Vietnam Women's Memorial. 1993.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Women%27s_Memorial.jpg
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structuralism = philosophical approach that analyzes society by looking at cultural phenomena such as signs that have hidden underlying meanings that can be decoded |
Maya Lin. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. 1980 - 82.
http://www.achievement.org/achievers/lin0/large/lin0-029.jpg
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Eva Hesse. Accession III.
1967.
Grosenick,
Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln.
2005.
accession
= the act of coming to or reaching the throne;
a mode of acquiring property;
the invasion, approach or commencement of a disease |
Eva Hesse. Hang Up. 1965 -1966.
Grosenick,
Uta ed. Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century. Taschen, Koln.
2005.
Eva Hesse. Contingent. 1969.
Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. Fourth
ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.
Conceptualism
= (a.k.a. idea art) art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Conceptual art may not even produce an art object, but rather a physical manifestation that is to be viewed as a document of the art. |
Eleanor Antin. Carving: A Traditional Sculpture. 1972.
Butler, Cornelia. WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.
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Conceptual
art is "made to engage the mind of the viewer
rather than his eye
or emotions." - Sol Le Witt |
Adrien Piper. Calling Card. 1986 - 1990.
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/~sma/images/print/radicalism/piper1.jpg
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Influenced by Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism 1974 |
Mother and child are united in early infancy |
The child becomes a link to power for the mother - the phallus |
As the child gains language, the mother begins to lose possession of the child |
The child's linguistic initiation gives him a positive relation to the phallus |
While the mother is returned to the position of lack |
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Mary Kelly. Introduction to
Post-Partum
Document. 1973.
http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/MK/PPDIntro.html# |
Mary Kelly. Documentation I, Analyzed
fecal stain from Post-Partum Document. 1974.
Hopkins,David. After Modern Art 1945 - 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. |
Mary Kelly. Documentation II, Analyzed
Utterances from PP Document. 1975.
Kelly, Mary. Post-Partum Document. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999. |
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Mary Kelly. Documentation III,
Analyzed markings from
Post-Partum Document. 1975.
Butler, Cornelia. WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. |
Mary Kelly. Documentation IV, Transitional
objects from Post-Partum Document. 1976.
Kelly, Mary. Post-Partum Document. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999. |
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Mary Kelly. Documentation V, Mounted
specimen 9 from Post-Partum Document. 1977.
Kelly, Mary. Post-Partum Document. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999. |
Mary Kelly. Documentation VI, Prewriting
alphabet from Post-Partum Document. 1978.
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/fa/images/large
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