I was watching this movie about samurais who were werewolves too.
When I thought of the year 1962.
That was one year before JFK was assassinated. Hashassinated.
Five years before Sol Lewitt stated:
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. - Sol Lewitt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, June 1967.
Then I thought, one can never brand an artwork "conceptual" unless one is certain that the artwork was made entirely by anyone but the artist who "conceptualized" it.
Peace Out,
Chazmatazz., MD.
When I thought of the year 1962.
That was one year before JFK was assassinated. Hashassinated.
Five years before Sol Lewitt stated:
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. - Sol Lewitt "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art", Artforum, June 1967.
Then I thought, one can never brand an artwork "conceptual" unless one is certain that the artwork was made entirely by anyone but the artist who "conceptualized" it.
Peace Out,
Chazmatazz., MD.
Dude:
I gotta beg to differ. Well, I'm not begging. Agree to agree to disagree? By stating that the "execution is a perfunctory affair," he is not (may he rest in peace) excluding the artist from the execution of the hypothetical piece. He is merely prioritizing the ideation (that's a word right?) of the piece over its execution (or at least saying the execution is trivial). The rub is some of his early wall drawings (which may or may not be rubbings - think about it). The execution of these pieces was contingent on the interpretation of the hired hand who would execute them. He factored this disconnect in (these gray areas) and implicitly critiqued the implicit (I'm gonna say Hegelian but I really don't know what I'm talking about) Hegelian-ness of his own position. To think that a thought is a dis-embodied pure thing that can be transmitted or even communicated is sheer folly. To think that it is a superior/higher material is elitist, but to think of it as a malleable material was/is/will be ripe with potential.
Floating Egos in Space?
What if the person carrying out Sol's instructions was severely limited in mental capacity, or had dyslexia, or even had a malicious intent to corrupt the process--is this the kind of disconnect you're talking about?
What if the makers went on strike and the conceptual pieces were never "made?" It seems there's still some sort of social co-operation/coercion needed to connect the thought to the material object....
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