Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: From the Pursuit of the Primordial to the Nihilism of Narcissism
- 2 Preliminary Therapeutic Attitude: The Provocative Object as a Path to Primordiality – Picasso and Duchamp
- 3 The Geometrical Cure: Art as a Matter of Principle – Mondrian and Malevich
- 4 The Expressive Cure: Art as the Recovery of Primal Emotion – Expressionism and Surrealism
- 5 Fame as the Cure-All: The Charisma of Cynicism – Andy Warhol
- 6 Enchanting the Disenchanted: The Artist's Last Stand – Joseph Beuys
- 7 The Decadence or Cloning and Coding of the Avant-Garde: Appropriation Art
- Notes
- Index
7 - The Decadence or Cloning and Coding of the Avant-Garde: Appropriation Art
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde: From the Pursuit of the Primordial to the Nihilism of Narcissism
- 2 Preliminary Therapeutic Attitude: The Provocative Object as a Path to Primordiality – Picasso and Duchamp
- 3 The Geometrical Cure: Art as a Matter of Principle – Mondrian and Malevich
- 4 The Expressive Cure: Art as the Recovery of Primal Emotion – Expressionism and Surrealism
- 5 Fame as the Cure-All: The Charisma of Cynicism – Andy Warhol
- 6 Enchanting the Disenchanted: The Artist's Last Stand – Joseph Beuys
- 7 The Decadence or Cloning and Coding of the Avant-Garde: Appropriation Art
- Notes
- Index
Summary
An offensive act may arouse anxiety about the ritual code; the offender allays this anxiety by showing that both the code and he as an upholder of it are still in working order.
Erving GoffmanI'm just a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Pablo PicassoMr. el-Masri said the discovery suggested to experts that this could have been the site of a temple complex in the reign of Ramses, who ordered more buildings and colossal statues than any other pharaoh did. On the other hand, he added, Ramses is known to have carved his name on statues of previous pharaohs or to have reshaped them.
New York Times, December 17, 1991By now the connection between [Robert] Mapplethorpe and [Patti] Smith is well known, almost overknown, overshadowing what meant so much; the mechanisms of fame always seem to need to suck just one image out of the fuller picture.
Ingrid SischyHow was it with the painters of the New York School at the beginning of the 1960s? I scarcely knew them. … It was more the fame of these people that astonished me.
Interview with Gerhard RichterIn the 1960s, in three “actions” of radical self-understanding and selfdefinition, Beuys sharply differentiated himself from other artists – from the dadaists, Duchamp, and Robert Morris – in order to avoid public misunderstanding of his therapeutic intention.
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- The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist , pp. 100 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993