Thursday, February 19, 2009

I find myself trying really hard to understand what exactly Krauss is trying to say in her chapter. She starts out writing about how sculpture is comparable to a commemorative representation. When she starts talking about Robin’s sculpture, she mentions that one of his sculptures has entered something called the negative conditions. My question is what is the meaning of negative condition? She talks about this negative condition while she is analyzing the bases of certain sculpture. The conclusion of her analysis seems to be how the bases of the sculpture suggest that they are transportable therefore implies their homelessness. What is the relationship with homelessness and negative condition? Or is homelessness the meaning of “negative conditions?”
Krauss explores the expansion of sculpture, which she then categorize them as being architecture/ non-architecture and landscapes/ non landscape. She describes this expansion as an historical rupture. She writes that this rupture is the shift into postmodernism. So far, in every reading we have had, each author has his or hers' own definition of postmodernism. What does Krauss suggest is postmodernism?

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