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Oppenhiem. Juxtaposition. Sensual contradiction between image and material. 

autobiography the other his work, both sites are "legal" sites. http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin/jpwdefault.html http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm

In the film stills she made photographs of herself based on famous film scenes. Later she created different characters using herself, makeup and props. Something disturbing and familiar at the same time. The scale of the photographs are close to a life size in the later work

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"Asked to submit something for display in 1917, Duchamp sent a urinal. ...Duchamp reflected on the history of art and decided to make a statement. The artist is not a great creator - Duchamp went shopping at a plumbing store. The artwork is not a special object - it was mass-produced in a factory. The experience of art is not exciting and ennobling - at best it is puzzling and mostly leaves one with a sense of distaste. But over and above that, Duchamp did not select just any ready-made object to display. In selecting the urinal, his message was clear: Art is something you piss on". From:  A Radical Perspective. Aesthetic Commentary:  Post-modern Art  By Stephen Hicks Here is what Duchamp wrote about this: The Richard Mutt Case:  Anonymous article in  The Blind Man  # 2, May 1917. Written by Beatrice Wood, H.P. Roché and/or  Marcel Duchamp . They say any artist paying six dollars may exhibit. Mr. Richard Mutt sent in a fountain. Without discussion this article disappeared

ANDY WARHOL Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way. I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody. Is that what Pop Art is all about? Yes. It's liking things. And liking things is like being a machine? Yes, because you do the same thing every time. You do it over and over again. And you approve of that? Yes, because it's all fantasy. It's hard to be creative and it's also hard not to think what you do is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is always talking about that and individuality. Everybody's always being cre

HCC Painting 1&2: Written assignment questions and EXTENSION

What kind of performance is painting?  When can an image function as a performance?  Jannin Antoni cecily-brown Auerbach

In his early works, McCarthy sought to break the limitations of painting by using the body as a paintbrush or even canvas; later, he incorporated bodily fluids or food as substitutes into his works. In a 1974 video,  Painting, Wall Whip , he painted with his head and face, "smearing his body with paint and then with ketchup, mayonnaise or raw meat and, in one case, feces." [3]  His work evolved from painting to  transgressive   performance art , psychosexual events intended to fly in the face of social convention, testing the emotional limits of both artist and viewer. An example of this is his 1976 piece  Class Fool , where McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup spattered classroom at the  University of California, San Diego  until dazed and injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a  Barbie doll  into his rectum. [1]  The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance. [ 1 ] http://vcupi.blogspot.com/2007/10/paul-mccarthy-from-pai

NEA Controversy In 1994, Athey became the target of controversy over the use of federal funds to support art work with visible gay content. In a performance of an excerpt from  Four Scenes in a Harsh Life  at the  Walker Art Center  in Minneapolis, Athey made cuts in co-performer Divinity Fudge 's back, placed strips of absorbent paper towel on the cuts and then, using a pulley, hoisted the blood-stained cloths into the air. Local art critic Mary Abbe (who had not witnessed the performance) wrote a sensationalizing story about the performance which appeared on the front page of  Minneapolis Star-Tribune . That story was picked up the  Associated Press  and quickly made national headlines. Widespread anxiety about  AIDS  created a perfect storm as critics and lawmakers including  Jesse Helms  falsely described his performances as exposing audience members to  HIV -infected blood. [ 2 ] http://ronatheynews.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4w5esb38Z8&feature=pla

Yves Klein  ( French pronunciation:  [iv klɛ̃] ; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a  French artist  considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of  Nouveau réalisme  founded in 1960 by the art critic  Pierre Restany . Klein was a pioneer in the development of  Performance art , and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of  Minimal art , as well as  Po p Art.