ART OF THE UNITED STATES

April 11, 2017

Lecture 15: Art as Information: Systems, Sites, Media

Haacke, Serra, Nauman

Hans Haacke, Grass Grows, 1969. Earth & grass, installation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Hans Haacke, Mo-Ma Poll, 1970. Mixed media installation for audience participation, Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Left: Richard Serra, Hand catching lead, 1968. 16 mm black & white film, 3 ½ minutes. Above: Richard Serra, Shovel Plate Prop, 1969. Lead.

Left, above & below: Richard Serra creating Splash Piece: Casting,1969. Lead. Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.

Bruce Nauman, Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals,1966. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame.

Left: Bruce Nauman, Corridor Installation (detail), 1970. Wallboard, close circuit video cameras, monitors, scanners, videotape player, black & white video. Above: Bruce Nauman, Eat/Death, 1972. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame.

Smithson, De Maria

Robert Smithson, The Monuments of Passaic (detail), 1967. 24 gelatin silver prints.

Robert Smithson, Non-site (Palisades, Edgewater, N.J.),1968. Enamel, painted aluminum, & stones.

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970. Rock, salt, crystals, earth & water. Great Salt Lake, Utah.

Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, 1977. Land installation, Quemado, New Mexico.

Jonas, Paik

Left: Joan Jonas, Vertical Roll, 1972. Black & white video, 19:38 minutes. Right: Joan Jonas, Left Side Right Side, 1972. Black & white video, 8.50 minutes.

Nam June Paik, Videotape Study No. 3, 1967-69. Black & white video, 4 minutes.

Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974-78. Televisions & plants.

Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1968. 18th century bronze statue, video camera, television monitor.