I looked at The Art of Not Making: Michael Petry from the reading list and found the following work of real interest:
Some interesting finds for me from the book:
- interesting analogy of a film director named as ‘making’ the film although a host of others help
- it does not discount the work of the many others involved. Nor do they deny the director the right to claim creative ownershp of the film
- 1917 – Duchamp – ‘anti-art’ – urinal – drawing a distinction between the works of art from the labout of manufacture
- fellow Dadaists in Europe and USA – sought to destroy the official culture – with their anarchic, anti-bourgeois, iconoclastic activties
- Jean Arp – experimental with spontaneous an irrational methods – 1915 – chance collages – ripped up paper dropped onto canvas an stuck down – ‘like nature, were ordered “according to the laws of chance”‘ – worked with craftsman Constantin
- Surrealists – 1920’s – 1930’s incorporated found objects in their art – Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns
- Joseph Kosuth (1945) – panes of glass against wall – “Art after philsophy” – argued that art was the continuation of philosophy” – Art could be an idea
- change from ‘appearance to conception
- French theorist Roland Barthes 1967 – declared the ‘death of the author’
- meaning of the work depends on the impression of the reader rather than the passions or tastes of the writer
- “a text’s unity lies not in its origins”, or its creator, “but in its destination”, or its audience.
- art lies not in the making of an object, but in the naming of it as art