AHIS10002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Pedestal
3 Sep 2018
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Works by the 1950s have transferred to single, uniform, unbroken and unmodulated field of colour laid over a flat rectangular surface. Sculpture a range of objects plucked from the world of non-art to which nothing had been added and nothing taken away. The boundary between sculptures and paintings have become blurry. Robert rauschenberg had begun to title his large collage-derived canvases. How artists reacted to the dominance of greenberg"s idea. Turning point of western 20s century art (cid:858)horri(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g(cid:859) Two core ideas: that an artwork is an expression of individual subjectivity. Instead: an artwork was seen first and foremost as a physical object: that an artwork is autonomous. Influenced by: cle(cid:373)e(cid:374)t gree(cid:374)(cid:271)erg(cid:859)s through of (cid:373)oder(cid:374)is(cid:373, completely against his idea, mar(cid:272)el du(cid:272)ha(cid:373)p(cid:859)s re(cid:272)og(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of the i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)(cid:272)e of a(cid:374) art(cid:449)ork(cid:859)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t. Pop art appeared in many ways as a simple break with modernism, a refusal or parody of its central terms.
