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.
