• Divisions of Fine Art – across the traditional
  • classification is difficult (impossible)
  • some artists explicit in they unpredictable patterns of practice
  • others exclusively work with historically established medium
  • module embraces emphasis away from FA being understood by sub-division into stable categories
  • towards one that admits hybrid practices – unpredictability and transformation
  • old system is problematic as it is stable – Beaux Arts System gives understanding of FA practice
  • Today this has been divided/added to – where do I place myself within this diagram
  • These categories of Fine Art practice so as not to be marginalized and forgotten
  • pre 1960’s classification of painting, sculpture and printing
  • post 1960’s blurring of divisions
  • Cathy Wilkes
  • Donald Judd
  • Yve Alain Bois
  • Gilles Deleuze

Look at MIF pg 26-30

Look at Reading List

Contemporary Texts

Murmuration, Michael Servetus