Thursday, April 2, 2009

Conceptual Art

1. Buchloh claims that conceptual art "prohibits any and all visuality" from the artwork, but he then talks about different ways in which how the visual is illegitimate. I don't understand that when you are looking at an artwork which is in front of you, how can the visual part of it be illegitimate? I thought it is the visuality that makes the art becomes important.

2. Buchloh also states that Pop Art and Minimalism give aesthetic values in terms of consumption and production to substitute the typical formalism and referentially. I don't understand the concept of “formalism” here, and what is the relationship between it and referentially during 1960's?

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