TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemasney,Finbarr
TI  - The art world's reponse to the demise of the "easel picture", a move from form to content
U1  - Thesis Print 05/17 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Limerick : 
PB  - Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT
KW  - Adorno, Theo.
KW  - Schlingensief, Christoph.
KW  - Theses
KW  - LSAD
KW  - Clare Street
KW  - Fine art theses
KW  - What is Modernist Formal Art?
KW  - Conceptual Art
KW  - Transgressional Art
KW  - Relational Aesthetics and Social engagement
KW  - Participatory
KW  - Performance Art
N1  - 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]
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