Midterm 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