The art world's reponse to the demise of the "easel picture", a move from form to content.
Lemasney, Finbarr.
The art world's reponse to the demise of the "easel picture", a move from form to content. [Extended Essay] Finbarr Lemasney. - Limerick : Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT ; 2017. - 45p. : col. ill. : 30cm
Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons Degree in Fine Art (Printmaking and Contemporary Practice) 2017.
Includes bibliographical references
Theories of art differ from each other in what they allege to be the real purpose of art, but they all agree that art is a means to some end. So, what counts is not the nature of the work of art but effect upon the audience. Art may be sensory such as the formalistic modern art Greenberg describes or social such as Participatory art. My thesis in this essay is that art while attempting to become socially engaging has sacrificed those formal aspects which make the art engaging to the viewer and so has lost relevance to the general population. I also suggest that in using shock as a tactic to challenge the complacencies of our society, contemporary art habituates us to the very aspects of society that it tries to challenge. I finish by discussing the participatory art piece "I Love Austria". I think that this piece works in engaging its audience, in part anyway, because the it is staged fulfils many of the criteria of formal art. [Abstract].
Adorno, Theo.
Schlingensief, Christoph.
Theses--LSAD--Clare Street.
Fine art theses.
What is Modernist Formal Art?
Conceptual Art.
Transgressional Art.
Relational Aesthetics and Social engagement.
Participatory--Performance Art.
Thesis Print 05/17
The art world's reponse to the demise of the "easel picture", a move from form to content. [Extended Essay] Finbarr Lemasney. - Limerick : Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT ; 2017. - 45p. : col. ill. : 30cm
Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons Degree in Fine Art (Printmaking and Contemporary Practice) 2017.
Includes bibliographical references
Theories of art differ from each other in what they allege to be the real purpose of art, but they all agree that art is a means to some end. So, what counts is not the nature of the work of art but effect upon the audience. Art may be sensory such as the formalistic modern art Greenberg describes or social such as Participatory art. My thesis in this essay is that art while attempting to become socially engaging has sacrificed those formal aspects which make the art engaging to the viewer and so has lost relevance to the general population. I also suggest that in using shock as a tactic to challenge the complacencies of our society, contemporary art habituates us to the very aspects of society that it tries to challenge. I finish by discussing the participatory art piece "I Love Austria". I think that this piece works in engaging its audience, in part anyway, because the it is staged fulfils many of the criteria of formal art. [Abstract].
Adorno, Theo.
Schlingensief, Christoph.
Theses--LSAD--Clare Street.
Fine art theses.
What is Modernist Formal Art?
Conceptual Art.
Transgressional Art.
Relational Aesthetics and Social engagement.
Participatory--Performance Art.
Thesis Print 05/17