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A review by astroneatly
Art Since 1960 by Michael Archer
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
The neo-dada movement of the 1950s propelled art in 2 bisecting directions… between Pop and Minimalism, and while Art Since 1960 “The repetitions of daily life, the proliferation of consumer goods,” came to the fore as Warhol, with his paint-by-numbers and the rise of avant-garde and post-modernist. It became a question about the nature of art. Unfortunately, painting was never highly appraised as an art form during this time, until the post-modernist period, that is, when a return to painting ensued, and the concept of ‘the loss of originality’ was the maxim, a copy of a copy of a…
“The unease felt by some at this behaviour led to charges that postmodernism was, simply, devoid of any sense of history, that its products were cynically cobbled together from element seized because of their superficial visual appeal and that it was therefore itself only an art of surface, lacking substance.”
As I was reading this book I was thinking about how art has carried over from the emergence of social media… looking at all of these installations, and multimedia, how do they translate over to this brave new dimension? Through memes, video footage, anyway it can be done to get its point across. Prior to Warhol’s death in 1987, Andreas Serrano’s Piss Christ [1987] and that of Robert Mapplethorpe had outraged members of the Senate for being financed ‘with the assistance of public funds’, Ultimately the question pertinent to Art was how the artwork functions politically. The 70s saw the impact of feminism, when a male dominated art world finally emerged the breaking apart of it’s patriarchal conventions. Giving rise to great names as Rebecca Horn, Sidney Sherman, Susan Hiller, et al. All of whom would challenge the nature of identity, and the feminist appropriation of automatic writing, since ‘words don’t explain images - they exist in parallel universes.’
“Sculpture must always obstinately question the basic premises of the prevailing culture. This is the function of all art, which society is always trying to suppress… Art alone makes life possible- this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art 👨 is inconceivable in physiological terms.” -Joseph Beuys
“The unease felt by some at this behaviour led to charges that postmodernism was, simply, devoid of any sense of history, that its products were cynically cobbled together from element seized because of their superficial visual appeal and that it was therefore itself only an art of surface, lacking substance.”
As I was reading this book I was thinking about how art has carried over from the emergence of social media… looking at all of these installations, and multimedia, how do they translate over to this brave new dimension? Through memes, video footage, anyway it can be done to get its point across. Prior to Warhol’s death in 1987, Andreas Serrano’s Piss Christ [1987] and that of Robert Mapplethorpe had outraged members of the Senate for being financed ‘with the assistance of public funds’, Ultimately the question pertinent to Art was how the artwork functions politically. The 70s saw the impact of feminism, when a male dominated art world finally emerged the breaking apart of it’s patriarchal conventions. Giving rise to great names as Rebecca Horn, Sidney Sherman, Susan Hiller, et al. All of whom would challenge the nature of identity, and the feminist appropriation of automatic writing, since ‘words don’t explain images - they exist in parallel universes.’
“Sculpture must always obstinately question the basic premises of the prevailing culture. This is the function of all art, which society is always trying to suppress… Art alone makes life possible- this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art 👨 is inconceivable in physiological terms.” -Joseph Beuys