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Art Matters: Illuminating Contemporary ArtShepparton Art Museum2015
LECTURE 1: CONTEMPORARY ART – AN INTRODUCTION
Lecture Schedule
Drew Pettifer and Chris Bond, Melbourne Now, Installation view,National Gallery of Victoria, 2013-14
Contact Details
Course Lecturer
Drew PettiferRMIT University and SAM FoundationEmail: [email protected]: www.slideshare.net/DrewPettifer
Brendan Huntley, Untitled (Upside-down goblets), 2010SAM Collection
What is contemporary art?
Modern Art
Alfred Barr, Cubism and Abstract Art, 1936
Hans Haacke, MoMA Poll, 1970
Contemporary art: c.1970 to today
Maurizio Cattelan, Novecento, 1997 at the Sydney Biennale in 2008
Conceptual approaches to art
How does contemporary art practice differ to modernist art practice?
Tracey Moffatt, Invocations # 1, 2000SAM Collection
What is postmodernism?
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I shop therefore I am), 1987
Benjamin Armstrong, Hold Everything Dear III, 2009
Louise Bourgeois, Avenza Revisited II, 1968-69
“aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally”
Frederic Jameson 1991, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, p. 5
Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Yellow), 19944-2000
Mona Lisa mug
Marc QuinnBlood Head 1991
Sherrie LevineAfter Edward Weston1981
Appropriation
Brook Andrew, Paradise 1 (red), 2011SAM Collection
Appropriation
Yasumasa MorimuraVermeer Study: Looking Back (Mirror)2008
Participation and socially engaged practice
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Workshop, 2013
Francis AlysWhen faith moves mountains2002
Maurizio CattelanA Perfect Day
1999
• Contemporary art begins around 1970• Response to changing social conditions• Break from modernist art practice
• Contemporary art no longer follows movements, but instead
embraces pluralism, openness and diversity• Contemporary art values ideas over materials• Contemporary art questions accepted histories• Contemporary art techniques include referencing,
appropriation, parody, performance and irony• Contemporary art is socially engaged and responsive
Some Key Ideas from this lecture
