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High & Low in American Contemporary Art
ASP spring 2010 Dr. Lori Kent
Unknown Artist (1999) Doge Dog (after Bellini)
LOW vs. HIGH
Giovanni Bellini (1501) Doge Leonardo Loredan
Clement Greenberg
1939. “Avante Garde and Kitsch”
Serious critics and artists must uphold the barrier between high and low culture. Kitsch was defined as “popular, commercial art and literature with their chromeotypes, magazine covers, illustrations, ads, slick and pulp fiction, comics, tin Pan Ally music, tap dancing, Hollywood movies, etc, etc.”
The problem with these things was a lack of authenticity.
“Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations. Kitsch changes according to style but remains always the same. Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of out times. Kitsch pretends to demand nothing of its customers except their money…”
VideogamemakerTake‐TwoInterac3veSo6wareannouncedbe9er‐than‐expectedearningsonThursdaythankstorecording‐se?ngsalesofGrandThe6AutoIV.ForthesecondquarterendedApril30,netprofitwas$98.2million,or$1.29centspershare,comparedwithanetlossof$51.3million,or71centspershare,inthesecondquarteroffiscal2007.Saleswereupmorethan160percentto$539.8millionfortheperiod,blowingawayanalystes3matesof$499.1million.
DeKooning’s Women were inspired by images of Marilyn Monroe
Jackson Pollock had a fashionable public image.
The battle was lost…
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGaBKpCfLdo h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1PRPbLqn_g&feature=related
Where are the boundaries? Why does it matter?
Screeamingqueens.com
http://www.petermax.com/
Peter Max
www.petermax.com/
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punS9XAjMJ8
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocii2sT8KTw&feature=relatedMusic:TheChemicalBrothers,SalmonDance
http://www.haring.com
http://www.pop-shop.com/
Keith Haring 1958 - 1990
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/timburton/
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3995
InterviewwithTimBurtonontheCharlieRoseShow
Piortr Uklanski (1998) The Nazis
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons at Palazzo Grassi, Grand Canal, Venice
Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uzWfl2WW0&feature=related
Jeff Koons. (1998) Pink Panther
No artist among cool "postmodernists" of recent decades has flirted more openly with commercialism than Jeff Koons, nor has anyone struck so steadfastly earnest a pose in the endeavor. Unapologetically, indeed some say brazenly appropriating advertising strategies, off-the-shelf merchandise, and kitsch icons from the inventories of mass-marketers and carriage-trade purveyors, Koons pursues his ambitions with missionary zeal. Self-appointed prophet of a heaven-on-earth of unashamed materialism and sexual bliss, Koons has gone Pop art one or two better, making an art of "the pitch" and "the deal," as well as objects out of the flotsam and jetsam of consumer culture.
h9p://jeeoons.com/
Jeff Koons (1990) Jeff in the Position of Adam
break
Andre the Giant
h9p://obeygiant.com/
APBOSTON—Astreetar3stfamousforhisred,whiteandblue"Hope"postersofPresidentObamahasbeenarrestedonwarrantsaccusinghimoftaggingpropertywithgraffi3,policesaidSaturday.ShepardFaireywasarrestedFridaynightonhiswaytotheIns3tuteofContemporaryArtforakickoffeventforhisfirstsoloexhibi3on,called"SupplyandDemand.”TwowarrantswereissuedforFaireyonJan.24a6erpolicedeterminedhe'dtaggedpropertyintwoloca3onswithgraffi3basedontheAndretheGiantstreetartcampaignfromhisearlycareer,OfficerJamesKenneallysaid.Oneoftheloca3onswastherailroadtrestlebythelandmarkBostonUniversitybridgeovertheCharlesRiver,policesaid.
h9p://www.icaboston.org/exhibi3ons/exhibit/fairey/
Shepard Fairey at ICA Boston
h9p://www.lehmannmaupin.com/
Red Grooms
TheBookstore(1978)
Red Grooms
MainConcourse,GrandCentralTerminal(1994)
Red Grooms
GrandCentralTerminal(1994)
Red Grooms
UndergroundPlarorms(1994)
Red Grooms
Train(2007)
Daumier(1863‐65)TheThirdClassCarriage
h9p://www.saatchi‐gallery.co.uk/ar3sts/rachel_harrison.htm
Rachel Harrison
GlamourWig(2005)
Rachel Harrison (2004) Huffy Howler
Rachel Harrison (2006) Shelley Winter
Rachel Harrison (2006) Nice Rack
Rachel Harrison (2004) Buddha with Wall
Rachel Harrison (2007) If I did It
Rachel Harrison (2005) Nose
Paul McCarthy
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozubKHdprMI
KerryJamesMarshall()Be4erHomesandGardens
Oldenberg/van Bruggen (2007) Big Sweep
Cecily Colbert (1996) Untitled
Lesley Vance (no date) Untitled
h9p://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs‐and‐stories/2010‐02‐24/best‐of‐the‐whitney‐biennial/#gallery=1365;page=1
Best of the Whitney Biennial
h9p://www.cpbgroup.com/#cpb
High or really low?
h9p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxSDZc8etg
High or Low?