Postmodern Plurality: Rothenberg, McCollum, Barney

Postmodern Plurality: Rothenberg, McCollum, Barney
1) After looking into their work further, how would you characterize the ways in which these artists think about the creative process and the production of work?
2) What are these artists concerned about communicating through their work?
3) Can you find any commonalities amongst these artists, even in a general way?

Nochlin and Fineberg response

Use Nochlin's claims about the limitations on women as a touchstone as you discuss the work of the artists we looked at today (Christo and Jeane-Claude, Bearden, Spero, Chicago, Mendieta)  How did these artists seem to
1) push against their limitations or prescribed social roles?
2) challenge the viewer to see life from their perspective?
3) use their identities to create an authentic experience with the viewer?
4) think about their role within the broader community?
Due Wednesday, November 7th

Processing our process

During our discussion today about the contemporary Haitian art on display at Crealde, we mainly focused on discovering what connections there might be between Haitian culture and religious practice, and the objects we found in front of us. We did not discuss the artists as individuals with different things to say, rather we painted their intentions with a broad brush. Why do you think this was a natural first step for our group in engaging with this work and what would be the next logical step in trying to gain a better understanding of the work in the exhibition?

Postcolonialism

Why is the postcolonial perspective so important to contemporary art and how does this group of theories fit in with the rest of postmodern theory? How does the work of Kimsooja and El Anatsui seem supported by postcolonialism? 

Ai Weiwei and Altmejd

How does the work of these artists fit into Danto's notions about post-historical art? What was your reaction to their work? 

Guarded View, Wilson and Danto

How does Fred Wilson's piece "Guarded View" (check your email for a reading about this work and others) critique both the museum as an institution and the museum goers behavior? And how does this piece fit into Arthur Danto's discussion about the end of the history of modernism?
Due Wednesday, October 17th 

Postsructuralists on Parade

In the "loose association of thinkers" known as poststructuralists, which theorists challenged the Modernist notion of originality and artistic genius? How does Cindy Sherman's work become part of this challenge to one of the tenets of Modern art? Due Monday, October 15th