Carlos Basualdo.Rosalind Krauss's "A Voyage on the North Sea": Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (Thames & Hudson), a brilliant new chapter in her continuing investigation of medium specificity Medium specificity is a principle in aesthetics and art criticism that developed during the period in art history called Modernism. According to Clement Greenberg, who helped popularize the term, medium specificity holds that "the unique and proper area of competence" for a form of , was published late in 1999--too late, in fact, to make that year's "best of" lists. Through a close analysis of the work of Marcel Broodthaers, Krauss redefines the concept of "medium" as a differential one, a complex aggregate made to cohere cohere (kōhēr´), v to stick together, to unite, to form a solid mass. only by the sheer consistency of the artist's oeuvre. Krauss opens up a large and intricate theoretical territory that should enable the critical reading of many non-canonical works--by artists like Gego, Lygia Clark Lygia Clark (1920 – 1988) was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. , and Helio Oiticica--that have proved to be particularly resilient to interpretation based on the (American) high-modernist critical apparatus and to fuzzy postmodernist post·mod·ern adj. Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: theorizing as well. Carlos Basualdo is Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and a cocurator of Documenta II, which opens in 2002. |
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