Appropriation

As a term in art history and criticism refers to the more or less direct taking over into a work of art of a real object or even an existing work of art.
The practice can be tracked back to the Cubist collages and constructions of Picasso and Georges Braque made from 1912 on, where real objects such as newspapers were included to represent themselves.

Sites of Display

Muse Wormiani - cabinet of curiosity reflected power of collectors

Galeria Milan - industrial - based on Passage des Panoramas - Paris 1799
Leeds victorian quarter - 19th century iron and glass roof - Barrel vault.

"All that is said melts into air"

Use value- is it doing its job?
Exchange value - what is it worth?

Neo Avant Garde practices 1960's onwards.
Sophie Calle - collects in cabinet - updated.

Quiz

1. What was the name of the famous international photographic exhibition of the 1950's that showed images of life and work from around the world? Family of man
2. Who argued that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Immanual Kant
3. What is an isotype? Symbol/image thats not culturally specific.
4. In what year was the festival of britain? 1951
5. What was the significance of the helmet in the festival of britain logo? Britania/ Roman empire
6. In what decade was the first photograph taken? 1820's
7. What is an indexical sign? Shadow / smoke - indicates something was there.
8. Who coined the phrase 'form follows function'?Louis Sullivan 
9. To which country did the futurists belong? Italy
10. What was the name of the building in which the great exhibition was held? Crystal Palace
11. what dates marked the beginning and end of the modern period? 1860-1960
12. What was Haussmanisation? Rebuilding of Paris
13. Who reffered to his typography as 'words in freedom'? Marinette
14. To which art movement does the idea of automatic drawing belong? Surrealism

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Today we visited YSP and looked around. Unfortunately the weather was terribly cold and they were in the process of changing the exhibitions so there was not much to view but what I did see before my fingers and nose dropped off was pretty cool.

Avant Garde continued

'The Incoherents' - Art nouveau - group of artists to look into.

Avant Garde started in around 1912 with Futurism - right wing radical

- Futurist typography "words of freedom" words are read differently in different fonts.
- DADA 1916 - Switzerland like futurism it rejected the past but instead rejected art (Anti-art) paradoxical term. Art but not art.

• Raoul Hasmann - DADA cino - montage - practice that is discontinuous - preserve identity                                                   collage - make items(newspaper, material etc.) into something else e.g. foil into guitar

- DADA - cities over countries
- Automatism - Andre Masson 1924 - suppressing conscious response and letting the pen flow freely.

• Marinetti Boccioni - futurist music - geometric shapes, mechanical aesthetics

- Futurists make words fit together
- DADA pull things apart

• Tristan Tzara - DADA poet
• Kurt Schwitters "Never do what someone has done before you" 

Avant Garde

Modern period - 1860-1960 - avant garde falls within (1912ish)

Concerned with modernity - political and aesthetic
Modernism - radical aesthetics (no politics)
Begining of moder period - money replaces status/monarchy

• 1910 - Futurism(Italian) - Marineth - leader
• 1916 - Dada
• 1920 - Constructivism(Russian) 
• 1920 - Surrealism - automatism

features of Avant garde include discontinuity.

Gustave Courbet - Realist - show world what it is

                                        - large scale / in your face

Honore Daumier -  Trains part of modernisation

Paris was rebuilt because of a cholera outbreak

Stop further revolutions - less place to run away and hide an wide streets were good for moving troops.

Increase in shops - modernity.

Middle class took over lower class in city, more apartments in center - more money.

Festival of Britain 1951

Ended the Elizabethan journey regrouping everyone after the war. Became tradition making ancestors proud.
1962 "You've never had it so good" Projecting positive image/ building moral/ increasing popularity.

Nation as a family - Metaphor/ portraying a message.

Logo

• Bunting - fair, party, celebration
• Helmet - classical
• Compass - directions

Designed by Abraham Games the logo was used all over. 

After war everything was black with coal - festival was designed to be colourful and bright.

A lot of contempory art was included such as sculptures to help people to look to the future.