Midterm 2 Readings Summary

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Steinberg

Question 2

Lecture 1960. talked about compositions.

Answer 2

La Monte Young

Question 3

Fluxus/Post-Cagean Aesthetics. relation between score and object, de-skilling, Young’s interest in singularity of each event (and repeatability)

Answer 3

Kotz

Question 4

Fluxus. late acceptance as avant-garde, Fluxus wanted to do away with art which was Dada

Answer 4

Huyssen

Question 5

Cut Piece. relationship with the war (nudity, fragment of clothing), fragment and souvenir, asian identity

Answer 5

Bryan-Wilson

Question 6

Street. reflection on Greenwich Village’s development, attack on order and sense which was pushing in on GV

Answer 6

Shannon

Question 7

Ray Guns, Store. Dubuffet and trash, Street was aestheticization of trash, Store assumes that avant-garde is assimilable by middle-class culture, ray gun is any right angle (universal angle), ray guns acquired by others

Answer 7

Bois

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Kaprow