art comics and counterculture.
who is your audience? who decides what is significant art? How do artists get their work and or ideas disseminated to an audience?
critics curators people with money investors. complex web of people.
judgement of beauty. taste. (individual subjective feeling of pleasure. eye of the beholder. separate from value of the object. (and practical use)
bc we have our own subjective we can never have the same judgement
taste is in a huge part of history of art. commissions. expect certain things in there. certain tropical fruits that are difficult to come by. audience will think they have access to luxury tastes. signify wealth. crucial to or understanding of what was important in that age.
Clement Greenberg. art critic taste maker. Very important in what got shown etc. art shouldn’t be to do with politics etc. Important: form, color, shape. Jackson pollock.
Hebert Gans. people would be involved in the culture that is associated in their class.
Pierre bourdieu. all sorts of things come into play. on surface we see something, but many other things influence that. what makes it the way it is? no way born with taste. informed by all kinds of things. social hierarchies. taste is used to control people. form of power.
taste: what judgements might we use? what informs it? to see an exhibition? a film? decisions we make. reasons why.
critical(eg don’t shop in primark) aesthetic - socially constructed (don’t like to queue up)
sometimes not an active decision. sometimes don’t see why that is. stuff we learnt at school. what our parents told us. taught us at university. ethics.
Roger Scruton. interested in aesthetics. kitsch. oversentimentality overemotional.
Grayson Perry: taste is woven into our class system. asks questions. different symbols of class- by asking these questions he’s promoting those stereotypes as well.
what do u think informs your value and taste judgements. personal? embedded ? not always informed by exterior, ? From family?
modernism: abstract art and its developments in sixties
courbet: painting people in everyday life. wasn’t a subject in painting before that. would have been commissioned before. innovation became important.
abstraction. Became central to modernism. materials processes used. rejection of history / realistic depiction
high art / low art : exhibition . raise to higher level into high art.
art spiegelman. MAUS.
blurring of high and low art.
youth of 1960’s. rejection of parents values. people dropping out. counterculture. people decide the way society is run is not progressive.
Phillip Guston . felt uncomfortable with abstract. make work more critical engaging with the world interested in comic aesthetic.
counterculture- what does this mean to you today?
LSD/ drug taking. people encouraged to break the law and access part of the mind that you wouldn’t usually.
Corita Kent : work became increasingly political, urging viewers to consider poverty racism and injustice. Screen print
Pauline Boty
Angela Davis , very much associated with counterculture.
Robert crumb
Women and the 1960s counterculture
DIY activities. individual responsibilities
stop consuming the culture that is made for you. Decide your own culture. zines
riot grrrl . underground feminist punk movement that originated in the early 1990s
arty zine
Amy sillman
Jeff keen
