User:Aisthanomai

Sculpture in the Expansive Field

3. Februar

Look into setting up a Wiki for the content!

“A very brief summary of the key points f the text you are responsible for”

''-No notes, no background, no nothing. ''

Themes presented next time:

Intro romantic art

Intro painting

Sensuous material of painting

Principles of artistic treatment

The Romantic subject matter

Following week:

…

Historical dev. on byzantine painting

italian painting

Flemish painting

Next class again, 15/02:

Clemet reebird Modernist Painting

Avant Garde & Kitch w/ Nada

Thorsen

What happens w Sculpture in our time

Any theory of repr. is put under pressure

Greenberg: Sculpture is freed from representation, it is liberated from having a certain task, and from the body.

Liberated from task - repr.

form - body

Abstraction represents (not imposed on by external form)

Hegel:

Form      +   Content

Sensuous material human bodies. Is this (as it is freed from subject matter, and not representing anything) now empty?

What is abstract Sculpture about?

-is it 'about' anything?

Greenberg: it is now

about itself,

purity,

presence,

self-sufficiency,

representing subject matter: “pointing beyond itself”

the abstract pieces of steel: “are present”

Formalism (very reflexive)

Michael Fried: Sculptural syntax - The formal possibilities:  space, exploring the three-dimensional, relation, force, vectors.

From symbolical to literal to theatrical', which creates situations by 'inviting the beholder.''

-The beginning of performance art.

Fried: -theatricality A less successful development of sculpture. (Richard Serra, Shift, 1970-72)

The more important the setting becomes, the more superfluous the work itself becomes. (as evidently contrasted by the greek statue)

Krauss, is reacting to this story of the sculpture turning into a (less successful form in the) theatrical

—the discussion here is also seemingly growing out of a narrative of development.

Thorsen: “formalist theory are appealing in the sense that they are pretty abstract.”

Mathias expert comment

the role of historicism - towards post modernism

the sculpure category hard to define, and used old

Sculpture had a specific place w significance & meaning.

Sculpture loses [at some point] its place (before it turns abstract), no spec. meaning, [as a universal category, as the number of available categories rise] “the sculpture is what it self represents.”

-represents itself, or IS itself ?

-A logical working out of the categories (the expanded field)

-Turns to negative definitions of the sculpture.

-Sculpture loses its significant role, in the emerging field (the expanded field).

-See pictures in the text- [Krauss - sculpture in the Expanded Field]

given the placement within the expanded field

Helles expert comment

Display, Underlying work, Realisation.

Grasping the parameters sanctioned by the artist is crucial to understanding the underlying work.

Thorsen:

Underlying -parameters for-> Display

the idea     performance

-ref. Kusntontologie

Installation Art in contrast to Performance (f.ex. a musical work)