Working with found/ready made objects

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Working with found/ready made
objects

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anti art
situationist
international
arte povera
objet trouve
contemporary art
examples
next task for your team

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anti art
20th century art history is characterised by the intrinsic inclusion of
philosophy and critical thinking.
The prefix “ anti” was first used during Dada movement years by Tristan Tzara.
He referred to Picabia as being “ anti-painter” .He also wrote about “antiphilosophy”, “anti-artistic”, even “ anti-dadaist”, about himself. But he never
actually used the term”anti-art”.

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The term “anti-art “ was first used by Andre Breton around 1930 and
again many times during the 20th century and even into the 21st.
“ It takes more than this man to make death from dust”

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Diogenes of
Sinope

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In 1963 Duchamp admits that in his early Dada years he questioned whether he
should make art or anti-art.

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The anti –artists are those who in their work have attempted to deny or break
with every conceivable anon of style, taste, or convention that may have been
established by the practice of artists in the past.
Anti-art is not, in other words , a non-art. It may be simply a kind of
art that attempts to turn the dominant art of its time upside down
and expose its underside –the side that is usually repressed.

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Man Ray- Enigma of Isidore Ducase, 1920

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situationist international
“Presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all
countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”, Gilles Ivain, IS#1
Situationists Map of Paris

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The Situationist International (1957–1972) was a relatively small yet influential
Paris-based group that had its origins in the avant garde artistic tradition.
Essential to situationist theory was the concept of the spectacle, a unified
critique of advanced capitalism of which a primary concern was the
progressively increasing tendency towards the expression and mediation of
social relations through objects

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Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005) was a member of the Dutch branch of the worldfamous COBRA movement, which also included Karel Appel and Corneille. In 1956, however,
his work took a completely different direction. Abandoning painting, he threw himself into a
vast architectural and town planning project called New Babylon, expressing his ideas for a
progressive, modern society via maquettes, drawings, films, graphics and manifestos.

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New Babylon
Constant Nieuwenhuys

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Moscow Occupiers, 2012

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arte povera
Term coined by the Genovese critic Germano Celant in 1967 for a group of Italian artists
who, from the late 1960s, attempted to break down the ‘dichotomy between art and life’
(Celant: Flash Art, 1967), mainly through the creation of happenings and sculptures made
from everyday materials.
Michelangelo Pistoletto

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As well as expressing their interest in social issues, the Italians were preoccupied with
creating various forms of physical interaction between the work of art and its viewer. From
the early 1960s Pistoletto had been making life-size images of people that were attached to
mirrored surfaces so that the reflections of the spectator became part of the work

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Giuseppe Penone

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Mario Merz

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Jannis Kounellis

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Piero Manzoni

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objet trouve
Lost property department at the train station in Paris

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Richard Wentworth

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Bill Woodrow

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Fischli and Weiss

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contemporary art
examples
Jessica Stockholder

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Isa Genzken

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Gordon Matta Clarke

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Richard Tuttle

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Caroline McGregor

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next task for your team
In pencil on two sheets of paper, the artist lists the
infinitives of 84 verbs—to roll, to crease, to fold, to store,
etc.—and 24 possible contexts—of gravity, of entropy, of
nature, etc.—in four columns of script. Serra described the
list as a series of “actions to relate to oneself, material,
place, and process,” and employed it as a kind of guide for
his subsequent practice in multiple mediums.
Build 4 sculptures as a team by using found/bought
materials/readymades and 5 verbs and 2 contexts from Richard Serra’s
list:

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Richard Serra list