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SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT

”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading

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Clever Structural Critiques ( part b )

 In (part  A) we saw some of what Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been doing artistically to shake and shape the customary meanings we associate with spatial relationships. Their  intention is to create room  for new and different interpretations … Continue reading

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Structural Critique and Playful Deception ( part a )

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are Berlin based artists specializing in land-art works and installations. They have treated nature as part of a cultural iconography and part of a socio-economic capitalist system in the Western world. Its a form of … Continue reading

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Art of the Brand New Shiny

Richard Wollheim, the British philosopher of art stated that although the art industry is constitutionally bound to cover the new and uncover beauty, individual artists have been bowing to a stylistic conservatism for the past 100 years leading to a … Continue reading

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