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High & Low in American Contemporary Art
ASP spring 2010 Dr. Lori Kent
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Unknown Artist (1999) Doge Dog (after Bellini)
LOW vs. HIGH
Giovanni Bellini (1501) Doge Leonardo Loredan
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Clement Greenberg
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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…”
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VideogamemakerTake‐TwoInterac3veSo6wareannouncedbe9er‐than‐expectedearningsonThursdaythankstorecording‐se?ngsalesofGrandThe6AutoIV.ForthesecondquarterendedApril30,netprofitwas$98.2million,or$1.29centspershare,comparedwithanetlossof$51.3million,or71centspershare,inthesecondquarteroffiscal2007.Saleswereupmorethan160percentto$539.8millionfortheperiod,blowingawayanalystes3matesof$499.1million.
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DeKooning’s Women were inspired by images of Marilyn Monroe
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Jackson Pollock had a fashionable public image.
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The battle was lost…
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h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGaBKpCfLdo h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1PRPbLqn_g&feature=related
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Where are the boundaries? Why does it matter?
Screeamingqueens.com
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http://www.petermax.com/
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Peter Max
www.petermax.com/
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h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punS9XAjMJ8
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h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocii2sT8KTw&feature=relatedMusic:TheChemicalBrothers,SalmonDance
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http://www.haring.com
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http://www.pop-shop.com/
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Keith Haring 1958 - 1990
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http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/timburton/
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http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3995
InterviewwithTimBurtonontheCharlieRoseShow
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Piortr Uklanski (1998) The Nazis
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Jeff Koons
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Jeff Koons at Palazzo Grassi, Grand Canal, Venice
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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.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uzWfl2WW0&feature=related
Jeff Koons. (1998) Pink Panther
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 of the flotsam and jetsam of consumer culture.
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h9p://jeeoons.com/
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Jeff Koons (1990) Jeff in the Position of Adam
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Andre the Giant
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h9p://obeygiant.com/
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h9p://www.icaboston.org/exhibi3ons/exhibit/fairey/
Shepard Fairey at ICA Boston
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h9p://www.lehmannmaupin.com/
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Red Grooms
TheBookstore(1978)
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Red Grooms
MainConcourse,GrandCentralTerminal(1994)
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Red Grooms
GrandCentralTerminal(1994)
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Red Grooms
UndergroundPlarorms(1994)
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Red Grooms
Train(2007)
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Daumier(1863‐65)TheThirdClassCarriage
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h9p://www.saatchi‐gallery.co.uk/ar3sts/rachel_harrison.htm
Rachel Harrison
GlamourWig(2005)
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Rachel Harrison (2004) Huffy Howler
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Rachel Harrison (2006) Shelley Winter
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Rachel Harrison (2006) Nice Rack
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Rachel Harrison (2004) Buddha with Wall
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Rachel Harrison (2007) If I did It
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Rachel Harrison (2005) Nose
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Paul McCarthy
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozubKHdprMI
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KerryJamesMarshall()Be4erHomesandGardens
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Oldenberg/van Bruggen (2007) Big Sweep
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Cecily Colbert (1996) Untitled
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Lesley Vance (no date) Untitled
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h9p://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs‐and‐stories/2010‐02‐24/best‐of‐the‐whitney‐biennial/#gallery=1365;page=1
Best of the Whitney Biennial
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h9p://www.cpbgroup.com/#cpb
High or really low?
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h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxSDZc8etg
High or Low?