Stage 2/3 Mini-Programme 2

Contextual and Critical StudiesAndrea Peach

Elevating the Ordinary

Narratives on the Everyday

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Elevating the Ordinary

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Lecture 1

Situating the Everyday

Lecture 1: A Brief History

Damien HirstHolidays/No Feelings 1989

Sarah LucasAu Naturel 1994

Garry Knox BennettTorch light 1996

Peter van der Jagt (Droog)Bottoms UpDoorbell 1994

Édouard ManetA Bar at the Folies Bergère, 1882

Marcel DuchampThe Ready-made

Fountain 1917

Pablo PicassoCubism

Still Life with Chair Caning1912

Pablo PicassoCubism

Introduction of everydayimages and objects

Concerned with Epistemology

Challenged the Viewer

Brings together ‘life on street’ and life in studio

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

Cubism

Nude Descending a Staircase (No 2)1912

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

The Ready-made

Bicycle Wheel 1913 (1964 replica)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

The Ready-made

… a lovely form has been revealed, freed from its functional purpose, therefore a man clearly has made an aesthetic contribution. Mr Mutt has taken an ordinary object, placed it so its useful significance disappears, and thus has created a new approach to the subject.

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

The Ready-made

… Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view - created a new thought for that object.

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

The Ready-made

Bottle Rack 1914

a manmade object may appear ‘a very trivial thing and easily understood’… But ‘it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties’

Karl Marx (Das Kapital 1867-94)

Man Ray (1890-1976)

The Ready-made

Gift 1921

DadaFrancis Picabia (1879-1953)

Francis Picabia - The Cacodylic Eye - 1921

Art is everywhere… except with the dealers of Art, in the temples of Art, like God is everywhere, except in the churches.

Francis Picabia

DadaFrancis Picabia (1879-1953)

Francis PicabiaPortrait of a Young American Girl in the State of Nudity 1915

SurrealismMan Ray (1890-1976)

Man Ray - The Enigma of Isidore Duchasse 1920

SurrealismMeret Oppenheim

Meret OppenhiemFur Covered Tea Cup, Saucer and Spoon, 1936

SurrealismSalvadore Dali (1904-1989)

Salvador DaliLobster Telephone, 1936

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

The Uncanny

Heimlich = Homely

Unheimlich = Unhomely

The uncanny is not to be found in the exotic, but in the everyday

The EverydayWalter Benjamin (1892-1940)

The revolutionary strength of Dadaism lay in testing art for its

authenticity. You made still-lifes out of tickets, spools of cotton,

cigarette stubs, and mixed them together with pictorial

elements. You put a frame round the whole thing. And in this

way you said to the public: look, your picture frame destroys

time; the smallest authentic fragment of everyday life

says more than painting. Just as a murder’s bloody

fingerprint on a page says more than the words printed on it.

(1934)