“Countless layers of ideas, images, feelings have fallen successively on your brain as softly as light. It seems that each buries the preceding, but none has really perished.”
-Charles Baudelaire
Escape Attempts
Published February 13, 2010 conceptual , Practice , Process , Text ClosedTags: conceptual art, LeWitt, quotation
“Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach…Illogical judgements lead to new experience…Formal art is essentially rational.”
-Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969. In Lucy R. Lippard, “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (New York, 1973), 75.
Gehry vs. Graves
Published February 10, 2010 Architecture ClosedTags: appropriation, Architecture, buildings, Modernism, Postmodernism
Crimp’s example of Postmodern (progressive) architectural appropriation in his 1982 essay “Appropriating Appropriation”.
Frank Gehry | Home in Santa Monica | 1978
Crimp’s example of Modernist (retrograde) architectural appropriation.
Michael Graves | Portland Public Services Building | 1982
Mapping By Pedestrian
Published February 10, 2010 Art , Austin , Drawing , Process , Projects , Video ClosedTags: class-projects, collaboration, community, Drawing, event, mapping, paper, Video
Project #1 | Group # 3 | Aidan Liller, Sarah Scroggins, Lindsey Webb, Victoria Sank | Drawings & Video Installation
Name That Building
Published February 9, 2010 Architecture , Art , Process , Projects 1 CommentTags: Architecture, buildings, class-projects, collaboration, installation, paper
Project #1 | Group #2 | Alicia Price, Emily Speck, Ali Goodman, Paige Rowley | Paper Silhouettes
Dome Aesthetics
Published February 8, 2010 Art , Process , Projects , Text ClosedTags: class-projects, collaboration, community, event, folding, paper
Project #1 | Group #1 | Pilar Arrieta, Rebecca Marino, Monica Wright, Katy Potts | Invitation to Event.
More Marclay
Published February 8, 2010 Art , Sound , Video ClosedTags: appropriation, context, installation, sampling, Sound, Video
“Video Quartet (2002), a large, four-screen projection featuring hundreds of clips from old Hollywood films, with actors and musicians making sound or playing instruments, represents a high point of his vision, an elaborate audio-visual collage that evokes pop culture, appropriation art and sampling.” (more)
Video Quartet, 2002, Edition of 5
Four-channel DVD projection, with sound
96 x 480 in. (243.8 x 1219.2 cm)
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