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Appropriation Irony Parody Deconstruction Identitity Gender All these characteristics of the postmodern in art can be found in the work of Marcel Duchamp and his Dadaist contemporaries. Postmodern criticism and art. Man Ray Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy 1921-22. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Postmodern criticism and art
Man Ray Marcel Duchamp as Rrose
Selavy 1921-22Marcel Duchamp
L.H.O.O.Q. 1919-40
AppropriationIronyParodyDeconstructionIdentitityGender
All these characteristics of the postmodern in art can be found in the work of Marcel Duchamp and his Dadaist contemporaries
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Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by her
Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
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Appropriation, Mechanical Reproduction
Andy Warhol Auto portrait 1966Andy Warhol Dick Tracy 1960
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Appropriation
Yasumasa Morimura Futago, cibachrome photographic print 1990 print, 1990
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Julie Rrap Camouflage # 1 (Ursula)photograph mounted on lexcen
2000
source Actress Ursula Andress
Appropriation, Identity and Gender
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Julie Rrap Overstepping
digital print 2001
Appropriation and Gender
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René Magritte, Le Modèle Rouge III,
1937
source
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Julie Rrap Untitled (after Manet’s ‘Olympia’)2002
Appropriation
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Edouard Manet ‘Olympia’ 1863
source
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Tracy Emin Everyone I’ve ever slept with 1997
Identity
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Tracy Emin Theres a lot of money in chairs
Identity
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Tracy Emin Helter F…ing Skelter
2001
Identity
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Tracy Emin• “…Emin's art is one of disclosure, using her
life events in works ranging from story telling, drawing, filmmaking, installation, painting, neon, photography, appliquéd blankets and sculpture. Emin exposes herself, her hopes, humiliations, failures and successes in an incredibly direct manner. Often tragic and frequently humorous, it is as if by telling her story and weaving it into the fiction of her art she somehow transforms it….”
From the White Cube Gallery, London
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Marc Quinn Self 1991
Frozen Blood (re-cast 1996)
Marc Quinn Alison Lapper Pregnant
White marble
Identity and new media
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• Blood sculpture 'melted'
• Self was bought for a rumoured £13,000One of the Brit Art movement's most remarkable works, a sculpture made entirely of human blood, may accidentally have been destroyed.
• According to a report in The Guardian, there has been speculation in the art world that Self, by Marc Quinn, had melted after the refrigerator it was stored in was disconnected by builders.
• The work, which is a life size cast of the artist's head, is made out of in nine pints of his own frozen, congealed blood.
• It has to be kept refrigerated or it will melt. • The work is owned by Charles Saatchi, the key patron of Brit Art,
and the owner of the Saatchi Gallery along with one of the biggest private collections of contemporary British art.
• It has been reported that builders who arrived to extend Mr Saatchi's London kitchen at the request of his partner, TV chef Nigella Lawson, unplugged the kitchen freezer where the head was kept.
• They discovered the mistake when red liquid was found oozing across the floor.
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Chris Ofili
The Holy Virgin Mary (1996)
Ofili's work is made up of paper collage, oil paint, glitter, polyester resin and elephant
dung on linen.
Identity, race and culture
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Lin OnusFruit Bats, 1991
Identity, race and culture
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Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone
Living (1991)Shark suspended in a formaldehyde bath
New media
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A comment by the artist
'[After] the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.' (Damien Hirst).
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Jake and Dinos Chapman
Great Deeds Against The Dead (1994)
source GoyaThe Disasters of War Plate 39
Great Deeds - Against the Dead
Appropriation
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“The exhibition, Works from the Chapman Family Collection 2002, paid ironic homage to the fast food giant McDonald’s through a fictional collection of rare ethnographic objects. The objects were carved from aged wood and presented in a parody of traditional museum displays. They appeared genuinely authentic until a closer inspection revealed the corporate symbolism of the hamburger chain. Issues of colonialism, capitalism, racism and globalisation are inherent in the work yet no critique or political statement is offered by the artists. Rather, the Chapmans’ aim is to unearth the contradictions and hypocrisies present in contemporary culture, posing questions but providing no answers.”
Saatchi paid £1m for their widely praised Works from the Chapman Family Collection, a group of totemistic wooden figures with a mysterious yen for fast food.
Appropriation and irony
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Glen Baxter Trouble At The Design Museum
Appropriation, Irony, Parody
source Gerrit Rietveld Red-Blue Chair 1917
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Glen Baxter “I’m still not entirely convinced it is a late Mondrian”
drawled Buchanan
Irony
a late Mondrian
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STELARC Third Hand
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Photographer: F.ParrImage courtesy of Sherman
Galleries
Mike Parr’s performance “Malevich (A Political Arm) performance for
as long as possible” “For thirty hours between the third and fourth of May 2002, a man
sat in a gallery with his only arm nailed to the wall.”
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From: Mike Parr: internet performance
Adam Geczy
• The origin of performance art can be located in 1917 in Zurich at the Cabaret Voltaire, where Hugo Ball, his partner Emmy Hennings and several other notable Dadaists, spouted nonsense verse to accompany nonsense acts to protest the Great War and the preciousness of art in general: no more cute art in frames, no more static art that only makes the philistines richer. From its beginnings, then, a critical part of the content of performance art has been its ephemerality. Once performed, or in fact at any given moment during the performance, it can never be the same again.
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Site specific installation
Richard LongA Circle in Alaska – Bering Straight Driftwood 1977
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Gallery installation
-unconventional media
Richard Long Untitled 2003
River Avon mud with acrylic
medium on wood
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Andy Goldsworthy Red Pool, Scaur
River, Dumfriesshire,
1994/95
Site specific installation
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Site specific installation
Andy Goldsworthy Snow Spires, Ellesmere Island 1994/95
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Artist’s statement -Andy Goldsworthy
• "At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient-only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete." -Andy Goldsworthy
• Andy Goldsworthy hit the headlines in June 2000 when he placed 13, one-ton snowballs around London for a Brit Art exhibition.
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Andy GoldsworthyInstallations
Grise fjord, Ellesmere Island March/April1989
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Frank Gehry Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1997.
New Materials and Technology, “Playfulness”
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Robert Venturi Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1962
Appropriation
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source :Leon Battista Alberti The Church of San Francesco, Rimini, Italy 1446-68
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Bernard Tschumi Parc de la Villette,
Paris 1983-91
The Architecture of Deconstruction
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Two Follies:Bernard Tschumi Parc de la Villette, andPirro Ligorio Villa Bomarzo 16th Century
Appropriation
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The Architecture of Deconstruction- the architectural realisation of Derrida’s
theoriesBernard Tschumi Parc de la Villette
…One aspect of the Parc de la Villette's deconstructive nature is its inversion of the traditional hierarchy of structure over ornamentation. The insides of structures are, in places, exposed on exteriors and used as decoration. The site also demonstrates how formal construction principles can be co-opted by purely ornamental considerations. The result is wonderfully disorienting to say the least. From the standpoint of poststructuralism, the Parc de la Villette participates in deconstruction's elevation of the signifier to a more active relationship with the signified.
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"The thing about 9/11 is that it's kind of an artwork in its own right. It was wicked, but it was devised in this way for this kind of impact. It was devised visually." Damien Hirst
postmodern – new technologies, “escalation of shock”
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New York 9/11 “Tribute in Light” memorial
3/11/02 to 4/13/02
postmodern – appropriation, recontextualisation (see next frame for possible source)
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Albert Speer The Cathedral of
LightGerman Nazi Party Rally at Nuremburg
1934
possible source