Session 3, September 27, 2005: DmPerspectives
The changing concept of rules and art: with Giy and Duchamp, the artist makes up his own rules. Cage and Wolff allowed performers to make the rules. In Happenings, the audience were given the rules.
Rules and visual art
Goya
- painted from observation rather than social convention
Edouard Manet
- placed a nude on a couch as normal, except that the nude is taring out of the canvas at you with a challenging look
- broke the rules of landscapes and nudes in luncheon on the grass by placing a pair of nudes in a landscape, with men!
Duchamp
see MarcelDuchamp for notes on Understanding Duchamp
- Three points on a triangle: Audience/ Artwork/ Artist
- the least important is the connect between artist and artwork
- one of several artists in his family so freedom to be on the fringe
- interested in popular mathematics
- only Finnegan's Wake has generated as many obessive applied theory
3 Standard Stoppages
- made up his own rules
- he sets up a system that would semi-randomly run
- holes were made by a little canon
- making his own rules and following them
Avant Garde
- "artists are the people in front of everyone else running backwards"-Mcluhan
- originally the first wave in a battle
- now has devolved into some idea of shocking
Rules and Music
see the bottom of DmPerspectivesTwo reading assignment for good notes on this
John Cage
- rules defined by i Ching
Christian Wolf
- sets up a vague and open notation which the artists interpret
Rules and happenings
Happenings in which the rules were given to the audience
LInks
- David Hammons from Leon