Final Readings

Question 1

The Avant-Gardist Work of Art - Burger

Answer 1

introduced “neo,” condemns it as a repetition and failure, distinction between historical and neo

Question 2

Experimental Music - Cage

Answer 2

music is inevitable, will always continue, silence is collapsing art and life and impossible

Question 3

4’33 at First Listen - Gann

Answer 3

4’33 as a lack of silence, it’s a collapsing of art and life

Question 4

Artaud - Theatre and its Double

Answer 4

mise en scene, life and art combined, use of lots of media, impulse rather than form IMPURE MODERNISM

Question 5

White on White - Joseph

Answer 5

white paintings reflect environment, relates to Moholy-Nagy and White Square as projection screens, allows art to open onto environment (unlike historical minus Duchamp)

Question 6

On Rauschenberg - Cage

Answer 6

too much art (unlike Artaud’s hunger), R repurposes old work, impossible to memorize his work (Factum) and how he piles on so many factors

Question 7

Reflections on the State of Criticism - Steinberg

Answer 7

no to Greenberg’s formalism (flatness is essence), modernism is expansion not reduction (Artaud), flatbed picture painting (painting is horizontal with R), pomo nature to culture

Question 8

Materialized Image - Krauss

Answer 8

builds on Steinberg, physically embedding in an image, suspension in a medium, materializing them gives them equal weight

Question 9

Steinberg - Jasper Johns

Answer 9

change of focus (painting/flag), objects he uses are commonplace and have cultural value, destroyed earlier works

Question 10

La Monte Young - Lecture 1960

Answer 10

talked about compositions.

Question 11

Kotz - Fluxus/Post-Cagean Aesthetics

Answer 11

relation between score and object, de-skilling, Young’s interest in singularity of each event (and repeatability)

Question 12

Bois - Ray Guns

Answer 12

Street was aestheticization of trash, Store assumes that avant-garde is assimilable by middle-class culture

Question 13

Kaprow - The Legacy of Jackson Pollock

Answer 13

moving into art/life division, Pollock as point of departure for Happenings (painting on ground, assembling brushstrokes to assembling space), scale of works (environment)

Question 14

Brakhage - Ken Jacobs

Answer 14

relationships between Jacobs and Schneemann and smith, relationship to life

Question 15

Sontag - Notes on Camp

Answer 15

camp is failed seriousness, de-politicized (Smith), style in favor of content, outmoded, brings in ideas of cruelty/Artaud/fragment

Question 16

Kozloff - Pop Culture

Answer 16

pop culture, Neo intentionally anti-group (like Dada)

Question 17

Crimp - On the Museums’ Ruins

Answer 17

Rauschenberg. his later works (silkscreens, transfers) are reproductions not productions (combines), less of a painter as he embraced photography

Question 18

Sontag - Flaming Creatures

Answer 18

is not pornographic, cements it in camp “strictly for the senses”, joy and innocence, de-politicized because no need to have position on sex stuff, “aesthetic vision of the world”