Dada’s legacy, CoBrA, Situationism, Gutai,, Fluxus and Happenings. • (Interlude: The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel De Certeau.) • Art as Idea • Yves Klein, Pier Manzoni and Robert Rauschenberg. • Idea as Art: Conceptual Art and beyond... • Sol Lewitt, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Art & Language, Words, Victor Burgin and Mary Kelly. Monday, 21 November, 11
prime object the separation between the human (real and possible) and bourgeois decadence, and will imply a rehabilitation of everyday life” (p.127) Monday, 21 November, 11
burns the essence of life into our flesh? No! No! No! Life appears as a simultaneous muddle of noises, colours and spiRITUAL rhythms, which is taken unmODifieD into Dadaist art, with ALL THE sensational sCREAMs and fevers of its reckless everyday psyche and with all its brutal reality. Monday, 21 November, 11
Orchestra during the Fluxus Festival arranged by Yoko Ono at Carnegie Recital Hall, New York (1965). George Brecht Re-enactment. Monday, 21 November, 11
escape inevitable death-by-publicity to which all other art is condemned, because, designed for a brief life, they can never be overexposed; they are dead, quite literally, every time they happen.”(Kaprow [1966] 2003, p.59) Monday, 21 November, 11
conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that make the art.” (Le Witt [1967] 2003, p. 846) “The idea itself, even if not made visual is as much a work of art as any finished product” (Ibid. 848) Monday, 21 November, 11
‘pure’ Conceptual art as the last gasp of formalism.” (Godfrey 1998, p.255) He was more interested in the way conceptual art had opened up new ways of questioning the ideologies underlying representation. Monday, 21 November, 11
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