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Mike Kelley’s Kandors
I thought this was neat. Mike Kelley created a number of versions of the bottled city of Kandor – a Superman comic reference. Essentially, the villain Braniac shrunk down Kandor prior to the planet Krypton’s (Superman’s home planet) destruction and … Continue reading
John Cage
The Buchloh conversations mention John Cage a couple of times… Cage was a highly influential American composer and a leading figure in the post-war avant-garde. According to his Wikipedia page, Cage was “a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, … Continue reading
Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried
A copy of my precis, as per James’s request. Fried proposes in this essay that literalist (minimalist) sculpture, by espousing its own objecthood, is kind of theatre. He claims that a major goal of modernist work was to defeat its … Continue reading
Tony Smith!
Generation, 1965 Die, 1962 Throne, 1956-57 And here’s some more of his work.
Objecthood
Objecthood This page from the University of Chicago website provides a helpful definition of objecthood. I found it useful for understanding Fried’s Art and Objecthood.
Flying Dutchman I by Haim Steinbach (Allanah Vokes)
An example of Steinbach’s custom-made shelves displaying puzzling collections of objects. Link to his website: http://haimsteinbach.net/
Sculpture Two Class Blog 