Thursday, February 19, 2009

Monumental Periphery of Sculpture

Strauss draws on the dichotomy that sculptures can both not architecture and not landscape, but makes it possible to also be architecture and landscape. Therefore, considering the Egg Earthworks by Andy Goldsworthy, which hold both architecture and landscape and if by default a sculpture, to what degree does historicism obstruct the parameters of labeling it a monument?

“Within the limited position of sculpture itself, the organization and content of much of the strongest works will reflect the condition of the logical space” (289). Given that postmodernist sculpture is exists in relation to exogenous actors such as cultural situations and logical structure, does Strauss claim that these, instead, hinder the spatial organization and conditions of medium of the same?

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