The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982.WALKER ART CENTER Is this promising show (forty artists, 100 works, an extensive catalogue, and a great title) Walker curator Douglas Fogle's follow-up to his "Painting at the Edge of the World"? That exhibition explored the way artists used paint not in the manner of traditional painters but to see what it could do. Likewise, the exploitation of photography's potential as a tool in the '60s and '70s pushed the medium in the direction of Conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. These concepts are not arbitrary inventions but are reflections of similarities among particular things themselves, e.g., the concept male reflects a similarity between Paul and John.; pure aesthetics gave way to the Bechers 1 Son of Benjamin. In First Chronicles "his first-born" should perhaps be read "Becher"; cf. Bocheru. See Bichri. 2 Son of Ephraim. His descendants are called Bachrites. He also appears as Bered., Baldessari, and the Pictures artists, not to mention explorations of identity, performativity, and the postindustrial landscape. The Walker's "genealogy" will explore these roots while looking at the work of younger photographers as well. Oct. 11-Jan. 4; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Feb. 8, 2004-May 11, 2004. |
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