Athur Danto. "The Artworld" 1964
IT- Imitation Theory: Art mirrors reality
RT- Reality Theory: Art constructs new realities and shouldn't mirror reality
The End of Art? Does the distinction between art and reality, creation and action, break down?
"is" of artistic attribution
Brueghel painting “Fall of Icarus,” “This blob of white paint is Icarus.”
Warhol in New York's Stable gallery, 1964
Robert Rauschenberg’s bed
René Magritte, La Trahison des images, 1928-29
Art and non-Art
The "is" or artistic attribution distinguishes art from non-art.
It creates a world that exists in a different way from the parts of the artwork that exist in the real world
Newton's First and Third Law
Danto, p. 577
Art as a social reality: The Art World
The realm of realities that an artwork can occupy depends on a theory of art articulated by a community, the "art world".
Theory opens up a new range of properties or predicates for new art objects to occupy or not occupy.
Danto's Matrix
Representational Expressionist
+ + Artwork is both Fauvism
+ - Representational, not expressionist Ingres
- + Epressionist, not representational Pollock
- - Artwork is neither Pure Abstraction
p. 583.
Nothing can say more than something
A new property discovered by a new art work or theory creates a whole new set of columns in the style matrix and opens up new possibilities.
Even art objects that omit the new properties in the face of the new theory of art, make statements that involve those predicates and are as rich as every other style.
less is more
John Cage: 4'33'' for piano (1952)
John Cage on Silence
Conceptual Art
Art that functions as the exhibition of concepts rather than as a physical object of beauty or a result of craft or skill.
Can be a set of instructions
Can be a performance whose documentation is secondary to the event itself.
Magritte, Son of Man, 1964
Magritte, Not to be Reproduced, 1937
Marcel Duchamp
1917
Joseph Kosuthin his 1969 essay, "Art after Philosophy,"
when he wrote: "All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual
(in nature) because art only exists conceptually."
My Bed by Tracey Emin.
"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst
Christo, Wrapped Coastline
Banksy "Exit through the gift shop"
Banksy Self-Destructing Art
The Books, "Take Time"