ASP High Vs Low Cont Art
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This document discusses the concepts of high and low culture in American contemporary art. It provides examples of artists who work across or blur the boundaries between high and low artistic traditions, such as Jeff Koons who elevates pop culture icons to an art historical level. The document also references theorists like Clement Greenberg who argued for distinguishing between serious art and commercial "kitsch". Overall, the document examines debates around where to draw the line between high and low art forms.
ASP High Vs Low Cont Art
- 1. High & Low in American Contemporary Art ASP spring 2010 Dr. Lori Kent
- 2. LOW vs. HIGH Unknown Artist (1999) Doge Dog (after Bellini) Giovanni Bellini (1501) Doge Leonardo Loredan
- 4. 1939. “Avante Garde and Kitsch” Serious critics and artists must uphold the barrier between high and low culture. Kitsch was defined as “popular, commercial art and literature with their chromeotypes, magazine covers, illustrations, ads, slick and pulp fiction, comics, tin Pan Ally music, tap dancing, Hollywood movies, etc, etc.” The problem with these things was a lack of authenticity. “Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations. Kitsch changes according to style but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of out times. Kitsch pretends to demand nothing of its customers except their money…”
- 6. DeKooning’s Women were inspired by images of Marilyn Monroe
- 7. Jackson Pollock had a fashionable public image.
- 8. The battle was lost…
- 11. h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGaBKpCfLdo h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1PRPbLqn_g&feature=related
- 12. Where are the boundaries? Why does it matter? Screeamingqueens.com
- 16. h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocii2sT8KTw&feature=related Music: The Chemical Brothers, Salmon Dance
- 19. Keith Haring 1958 - 1990
- 23. Piortr Uklanski (1998) The Nazis
- 24. Jeff Koons
- 25. Jeff Koons at Palazzo Grassi, Grand Canal, Venice
- 26. Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.
- 27. No artist among cool "postmodernists" of recent decades has flirted more openly with commercialism than Jeff Koons, nor has anyone struck so steadfastly earnest a pose in the endeavor. Unapologetically, indeed some say brazenly appropriating advertising strategies, off-the-shelf merchandise, and kitsch icons from the inventories of mass- marketers and carriage-trade purveyors, Koons pursues his ambitions with missionary zeal. Self-appointed prophet of a heaven-on-earth of unashamed materialism and sexual bliss, Koons has gone Pop art one or two better, making an art of "the pitch" and "the deal," as well as objects out Jeff Koons. (1998) Pink Panther of the flotsam and jetsam of consumer culture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uzWfl2WW0&feature=related
- 36. Jeff Koons (1990) Jeff in the Position of Adam
- 37. break
- 39. Andre the Giant
- 42. Shepard Fairey at ICA Boston h9p://www.icaboston.org/exhibi3ons/exhibit/fairey/
- 63. Rachel Harrison Glamour Wig (2005) h9p://www.saatchi‐gallery.co.uk/ar3sts/rachel_harrison.htm
- 64. Rachel Harrison (2004) Huffy Howler
- 65. Rachel Harrison (2006) Shelley Winter
- 66. Rachel Harrison (2006) Nice Rack
- 67. Rachel Harrison (2004) Buddha with Wall
- 68. Rachel Harrison (2007) If I did It
- 70. Rachel Harrison (2005) Nose
- 74. Oldenberg/van Bruggen (2007) Big Sweep
- 75. Cecily Colbert (1996) Untitled
- 76. Lesley Vance (no date) Untitled
- 77. Best of the Whitney Biennial h9p://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs‐and‐stories/2010‐02‐24/best‐of‐the‐whitney‐biennial/#gallery=1365;page=1
- 78. High or really low? h9p://www.cpbgroup.com/#cpb