q1 postmodern and conceptualism

• anne hamilton
• capacity of absorption
• 1990

contemporary

the viewer becomes involved with the worked, visually and physically with the stimulation of senses. also interactive ( you can touch the glasses of water)

• Tony Kushner
• Persian Line
• 1970

Post modern art

visibility of individual craftsman ship. parody of a fashion line which is mass produced/manufactured.

• Saar
• Liberation of Aunt Jemima
• 1970

Post modern

• Changing relationship to issue of slavery
• Shows progession of AJ model to socially and culturally acceptable standards of the time

• Tony Smith
• Die
• 1962/1968

modernism

• Kosuth
• Art as idea as idea
• 1970

Conceptualism

different connotations of the same word.

• Kosuth
• One and Three Tables
• 1965

Conceptual ism

epistemological problems: "how do we know what we know?"

• Kosuth
• Untitled
• 1975

• we mistake the trees for the forest
• too busy looking at details that you dont notice the work as a whole/totality
• we are  in a trance
• we get lost and lose the meaning
• how we are organized in the art of seeing

• Lewitt
• Locations of six geometric figures: the location of a circle and a trapazoid
• 1975

can you describe an image with language? and even then how much more difficult is it to do that way

• Lewitt
• Box in the hole
• May 1970

works can be executed differently when only given instructions.

• Lewitt
• variations of incomplete open cubes
• 1970

visual engagement changes the longer you look at it. mathematics and organized in a system. not by chance.

• Lewitt
• Four basic kinds of straight lines and all their combinations
• 1970

• song played is 18 musicians.
• increase density in line pattern which was in sync with the increase intensity in sound

• lewitt
• 1975
• Wall drawings #260

• instructions in the middle of the drawings.
• play by play of how the curators should execute the instructions given.

• kawara
• today
• 1966

biographical documentation w/o biographical content

• kawara
• postcard: i got up
• 1970

• on kawara
• confirmation
• 1975