Greenbergmarked transitional period between modernism and pop

HumorNo functionBringing together painting and sculpturecanvasmonumentalismthe store

capitalismart market

changing shapewife sewed, he paintedamerican commentary, sixtiesunappetizing

sloppy, dirty, asymmetricalscale“sitter” is low, not idealized human body, glorified, etc

In an exhibition-catalog entry in 1961, Oldenburg made a famous manifesto: "I am for the art that a kid licks, after peeling away the wrapper. I am for an art that is smoked, like a cigarette, smells, like a pair of shoes. I am for an art that flaps like a flag, or helps blow noses, like a handkerchief. I am for an art that is put on and taken off, like pants, which develops holes, like socks, which is eaten, like a piece of pie ... "At the MoMA show, there's a huge 9-foot-long wedge of cake called Floor Cake sitting on the floor next to a 7-foot-wide hamburger, called Floor Burger, that you have to walk around. "I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs," Oldenburg wrote. "I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete."

commentary on the time period

Kirk Varnedoe- looking at modern art’s relationship with popular cultureYve Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss- Formless

re-interpretation of Georges Bataille scatologybase materialism, horizontality, pulse, entropy

Jeff Wall, Morning Cleaning, 1999

- Mies van der Rohe- Georg Kolbe Dawn

- Art history making references to art history- Tensions

- In society and, in turn, within the art historical canon- Cleanliness

- Work that erases itself- Near documentary- ‘Less is more’

- Scale- Lightbox

- Michael Fried and Christine Conleyfrustrated attempts of the avant garde to relate to the working class