Strategies of Modern and Contemporary Art II.
Can Art Save the World? Mondrian/ Kandinsky – religious – Art as a bridge to a clarity of vision – Zsoqs1A&start=2611&end=2711&cid= Zsoqs1A&start=2611&end=2711&cid=
Mikuláš Medek Jedovnice, Moravia (CZ) 1963
Spirituality, Surrealism and Youth Protests Rothko chop.swf?vurl=xbS0Z- n3vww&start=3234&end=343 5&cid= chop.swf?vurl=xbS0Z- n3vww&start=3234&end=343 5&cid= Surrealism chop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&s tart=47&end=280&cid= chop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&s tart=47&end=280&cid= /69 as a heritage of surrealism chop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&s tart=3002&end=3358&cid= chop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&s tart=3002&end=3358&cid= Devětsil (CZ)- surrealist movement
1968 Dissent Radical social agenda: – students´ and workers´prostests – Anti-Vietnam war protests – Growth of feminism Avant-garde artists begun to challenge modernism (= male/ progress) – Jasper Johns or Richard Hamilton – Performance – Fluxus – Beuys – Situationist International
1970s: Conceptualism Paintings no longer need to be necessarily coloured of be flat Sculptures do not necessarily have to be upright or to have volume Duchamp anything can under certain conditions qualify as „art“ Intention: to frustrate the market mechanism Confusion
Women´s Art Conceptual Art – photography, collage Martha Rosler, „House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home“, tubechop.swf?vurl=zgYDu A- fBLg&start=2408&end=25 09&cid= tubechop.swf?vurl=zgYDu A- fBLg&start=2408&end=25 09&cid=
Performance Deriving at some distance from dada From alternative theatre From the happenings movement of the 1960s Resists to be treated as commodity m/tubechop.swf?vurl=3 JEx6CDW6- o&start=571&end=728 &cid= m/tubechop.swf?vurl=3 JEx6CDW6- o&start=571&end=728 &cid=
Performance: Joseph Beuys AFc1BeS0vKI&start=2700&end=2845&cid= AFc1BeS0vKI&start=2700&end=2845&cid=
Marina Abramovic _qms?t=1h10m21s _qms?t=1h10m21s Magiciens de la Terre, 1989, Centre Pompidou, Paris – Nigthsea Crossing Conjuction The Artist is Present, 2009 – qms?t=27m31s qms?t=27m31s – qms?t=44m10s qms?t=44m10s Dematerialization – Gino De Dominicis, Invisibility qms?t=1h7m4s qms?t=1h7m4s – John Cage, 4m33s
Painting and Politics: from 1980s on The Third Text Journal, nline nline RASHEED ARAEEN Further reading: ocation_id=460 ocation_id=460 ocation_id=458 ocation_id=458
Painting and Politics: 1970s- 1990s Soviet Conceptualism Komar and Melamid, „Quotation“, 1972
Soviet Conceptualism and Performance Collective Actions – Andrei Monastyrsky – Began to develop John Cage´s ideas concerning the role of chance and randomness; inspired by Samuel Beckett – Ritualistic actions of enigmatic nature – The Third Variant, 1978 – lying in a ditch until the audience wandered away – Underground Art, 1979
Painting and Politics, from 1980s on: Body Art 1980s: The return of the figure and expression chop.swf?vurl=AFc1BeS0vKI&st art=2502&end=2641&cid= chop.swf?vurl=AFc1BeS0vKI&st art=2502&end=2641&cid=