Saturday, February 4, 2012

Original copy starts getting surreal

Original Copy, chapter vi. Cultural and Political icons.
Page 127: Monumnets discussed, Robert Frank's "The Americans" compared to Eisenstein's "October". Page 129: "Even as monuments continue to be commissioned, debate over how to probe the past from critical perspectives have produced more active modes of memory telling".

Chapter VII: The Studio Without Walls: Sculpture in the Expanded Field". Camera use in 60s for site specific art. Quoting Smithson "it appears that abstraction and nature are merging in art and that the synthesizer is the camera".
Page 154: dissecting building and dissecting 35mm film (both literally).
Christo unrealized anti-Berlin wall work described.
Page 167: early Man Ray readymades/photography described.
Page 167-8: Automatism and bits of scrap paper; "sculptures in volontaires": try this with students?

Page 169: "To produce sculpture ... is sometimes merely to notice it, to find it".
Page 178-179: look at the titles of these photos.

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