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Offenses to Images…..continued

This discussion explores the rejection and destruction of artworks, moving beyond vandalism and iconoclasm to analyze the diverse meanings and social implications. It covers topics such as identity issues in the arts, censorship, democratization, diversity, activism, and the social context of collective memory.

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Offenses to Images…..continued

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  1. Offenses to Images…..continued Destruction & Loss as Forms of Communication (“preserving what is valued” also may destruction & loss of what is NOT valued) Discussion of term assignments, handing out quizzes & short reports

  2. Social Studies of the Rejection and Destruction of Artworks-- Moving beyond Vandalism and Iconoclasm to an analysis of the diverse meanings of the rejection of artworks--

  3. Identity issues in the practice of the arts • Inclusion/cohesion • Art as expression of identity, difference (distinction) • exclusion • Discriminatory Dimensions of Artistic Practices & Institutions • Censorship and/or Democratization

  4. Censorship as an outcome of democratization • artists’ (& minority publics’) rights to • “self-expression” or • freedom of speech (1st Amendment) • VS. public’s rights & government’s duties to enforce standards • issues-- what standards, whose standards?

  5. Key issues in Democratization debates • public’s rights & public funding (access,control, taste) • “levels” of knowledge & tastes • artist’s rights & responsibility to be “leaders” in society

  6. Diversity & Activism : Why? • To raise public awareness • Fund-raising • political & legal change

  7. Debates about Arts activities for populations “at risk”? • Arts for arts sake? • “emancipatory self expression”? • social service? • Arts for Moral improvement? Carceral methods? (comfort, reform, “normalize”) • Arts and healing?r • propaganda?

  8. Rejection and Destruction of Artworks-- • diverse meanings of the disappearance & rejection of artworks—

  9. Forms of destruction & loss of artistic heritage • Neglect • Unplanned degeneration • Accidents • War • ‘progress’ • Planned disappearance (sometimes by artists or creators) • Iconoclasm & vandalism

  10. Impermanent materials

  11. Ephemeral Art (ex. Land Art)

  12. New Approaches to Multiples: Bruce Nauman’s neons

  13. Why isn’t everything kept? --The social context of collective memory • Personal (family) Networks & Values • Community-based criteria • Other factors (sometimes concurrent) • Scholarly • Political • Economic • Moral & ethical • Class-based (elite, popular) agendas etc…. • Variations in meaning over time

  14. Vandalism vs. iconoclasm • Iconoclasm : deliberate destruction of images rooted in religious, political or other socio-cultural beliefs • Ex. Destruction of 3rd c. A.D. Buddhas by Taleban in Afghanistan completed March 12, 2002

  15. Fuseli: Artist weeping in despair …. • diverse meanings of the disappearance & rejection of artworks • Vandalism vs. Iconoclasm • Vandalists: ignorant, senseless • Iconoclasts: deliberate opposition, “rationale” grounded in system of values

  16. Iconoclasm-- Religious • Iconoclasm : deliberate destruction of images rooted in religious, political or other socio-cultural beliefs • Ex. Destruction of 3rd c. A.D. Buddhas by Taleban in Afghanistan completed March 12, 2002

  17. Iconoclasm: Afghanistan Buddha (partly destroyed)

  18. Close-up Afghanistan Buddha (bombing)

  19. Iconoclasm—Political :Stalin

  20. Iconoclasm: Unitas

  21. Vandalism • Senseless • Vandals as idiots • Goya: No sabe que hace

  22. LesueurVandals as silly

  23. Censorship and controversies as social “devices”for recognitionCase study: Rachel Whiteread’s 1993 House and the awarding of the “X-prize”

  24. “House” & 1993 Turner Prize

  25. X-prize JAMS, Kopyright Liberation Front (KLF)K Foundation, • --Jimmy Cuaty & • Bill Drummond • -Brit Awards

  26. X-prize ads

  27. Armoured cars

  28. X-prize award night

  29. Award night

  30. more

  31. Actual prize

  32. Meaning of prize • Mocking? • contemporary art • competition system • Authority of judges • Money vs. sincerity • Value of particular artwork • Other events (musicians market art made of money for ½ value of materials)

  33. Cauty earlier work

  34. Reputations & controversyWhiteread: young artist, strong career since

  35. Interior before casting

  36. Whiteread working on site

  37. Completed work– distance shot

  38. Social Issues/contradictions • Former hold-out (elderly) convinced to sell for art monument • Solidarity with homeless but Stopping low-rent housing project • Financed with public funds and donation from company believed guilty of destruction of neightbourhoods & natural habitats

  39. Another view

  40. Publicity & book • Critics Discourse– • Aesthetics • links to major monuments of art history (ex.Atrium House Pompei) • Feminist metaphor etc.

  41. British fondness of home • Wind in the Willows image

  42. Is it art criticism?

  43. Public Outrage

  44. Mocking newstories

  45. Squatters

  46. Graffiti/Vandalism • Homes for all • black and white

  47. Paint splash

  48. Incomprehension (budget house)

  49. Destruction of House

  50. Destruction

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