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Art Matters: Illuminating Contemporary ArtShepparton Art Museum2015
LECTURE 1: CONTEMPORARY ART – AN INTRODUCTION
Drew Pettifer and Chris Bond, Melbourne Now, Installation view,National Gallery of Victoria, 2013-14
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Drew PettiferRMIT University and SAM FoundationEmail: [email protected]: www.slideshare.net/DrewPettifer
“aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally”
Frederic Jameson 1991, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, p. 5
• Contemporary art begins around 1970• Response to changing social conditions• Break from modernist art practice
• Contemporary art no longer follows movements, but instead
embraces pluralism, openness and diversity• Contemporary art values ideas over materials• Contemporary art questions accepted histories• Contemporary art techniques include referencing,
appropriation, parody, performance and irony• Contemporary art is socially engaged and responsive
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