Dick Higgins Essay on intermedia
Keyword/Quote/First Thoughts
INtermedia
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There is no reason for us to go into history in any detail. Part of the reason that Duchamp's
objects are fascinating while Picasso's voice is fading is that the Duchamp pieces
are truly between media, between sculpture and something else, while a Picasso
is readily classifiable as a painted ornament.'
Explains why work between media is more relevant now.
INtermedia
Similarly, by invading the land
between collage and photography, the German John Heartfield produced what are
probably the greatest graphics of our century, surely the most powerful political art
that has been done to date.
An
example of how intermedia work was used to create some of the most powerfull
political work
Collage
"Kaprow, more philosophical and
restless, meditated on the relationship of the spectator and the work."
I
wonder what influence this man had on exhibition space?
Collage
in the spring of 1958, he began to
include live people as part of the collage, and this he called a "happening."
A
progression from collage to happenings. To create a better relationship between
spectator and work.
Art
"The world was filled at that time
with concrete poems, happenings, sound poetry, environments, and other
more or less novel developments; unless the public had a way of seeing into the work
by causing it to stand still for a moment and be classified, the work was likely
to be dismissed as "avant-garde: for specialists
only."
List
of the arts happening dueing the period
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