the art of making art without lifting a finger

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Diane Arbus, Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962

Diane Arbus, Teenage Couple on Hudson Street , N.Y.C., 1963

Diane Arbus, Two Girls in Curlers, N.Y.C., 1963

Diane Arbus, Young Man and his Pregnant Wife, Washington Park, N.Y.C., 1965

Ray Johnson1927 – 1995

Ray Johnson, Mail Art

Ray Johnson, Mail Art

Ray Johnson, Mail Art

Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1963

Robert Rauschenberg, Third Time Painting, 1961

Robert Rauschenberg, Overdrive, 1963

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), 1936

Joseph Cornell, Ann– In Memory, 1954

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 85, 1971

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 260, Museum of Modern Art, 2008

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 260, Museum of Modern Art, 1975

Dan Flavin, untitled (to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow), 1966 – 68

Dan Flavin, Installation of greens crossing greens (to Piet Mondrian who lacked green), 1966

Yoko Ono, Box of Smile, 1971

Yoko Ono

John Cage, score __,_ _Circus on___, 1979

John Cage, Water Music, 1952

Relational Aesthetics is defined as: “A set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.” Relational Aesthetics, 1998, p. 113

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled (Free/Still), 1992

Carsten Höller, Revolving Hotel Room, Guggenheim Museum, 2008

Read:• Chapter 4, “The Art of Making Art without Lifting

a Finger”Respond in your Journal:

1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on chapter 4, a quote or one of the videos shown in class.