Chapter 3: Seeing the Value in Art CHAPTER OVERVIEW

Art and Its Reception

Art, Politics, and Public Space Three Public Sculptures The “Other” Public Art

value – worth, monetarily and culturally

What are values? What do you value? What are Texas Values?

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This Chapter Will: evaluate the term value relative to the study of art by identifying the monetary, cultural, and historical valuation of artworks discuss the reception of artworks, art movements, and art exhibitions that challenged tradition and subsequently broadened the definition of art present contemporary visual artworks with multiple functions and motives, such as activist, political, public, and performance outline the objectives and roles of public agencies involved in supporting the creation of art

Key terms: Armory Show public art

activist art

In what ways can art be “public”?

What type of boundaries should be placed on public artworks or

performances?

Pat Boone was the

establishment’s acceptable

alternative to Elvis and 1950’s

rock-n-roll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yRdDnrB5kM

Pat Boone, Bernadine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZ3Ed0vHEo

Jerry Lee Lewis, A Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On

Conservative/Progressive

private public .____________.___________.____________.

experiencer reporter analyst activist

Suzanne Lacy’s Spectrum of Artist’s Roles, 1995

Where on this spectrum would the following musical acts fall:

T Pain, Yung Joc, Chamillionaire, Terror Squad, Ashlee Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Beastie Boys, Green Day, Outkast,

eminem, Rage Against the Machine, Britney Spears, Staind, Nelly, Public Enemy, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, Allanis Morrissette?

"We Are Never Ever Getting Back

Together" by Taylor Swift is

currently (week 34, 2012) in the

HOT100 Billboard charts at position

1.

Like ever...

I'm really gonna miss you picking fights

And me, falling for a screaming that I'm right

And you, will hide away and find your piece

of mind with some indie record that's much

cooler than mine

Oooh you called me up again tonight

But Oooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling

you

We are never ever ever getting back

together

We are never ever ever getting back

together

You go talk to your friends talk

To my friends talk to me

But we are never ever ever ever getting

back together

Love The Way You Lie Eminem Featuring Rihanna

Billboard #1, 09-01-10

Just gonna stand there

And watch me burn But that's alright

Because I like The way it hurts

Just gonna stand there And hear me cry But that's alright

Because I love The way you lie…

The single performed very well in the U.S., peaking at

number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at number 1

on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for 8 weeks

becoming 2006's second longest run at number 1 behind

Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" which had 15 weeks at the

summit. It also peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot

Rap Tracks chart. This is Yung Joc's second most

successful song, behind "Buy U a Drank (Shawty

Snappin')", which he featured in alongside T-Pain.

Meet me in the trap its going down

Meet me in the mall its going down

Meet me in the club its going down

Any where ya meet me guaranteed to go down

[verse 2]

Verse numba 2 do the damn thang

Cubes on my neck pockets full of ben frank

When I'm in the mall hoes just pause

I pop a few tags give me that on the wall

Time to flip the work make the block bump

Boys from the hood call me black Donald Trump

They claim the sh-- I say is just wrong

Like nobody has those really dark thoughts when alone

I'm just a teenager, who admits he's suicide prone

My life is doing pretty good, so that date is postponed for now

Wow, life's a cute b--ch full of estrogen

And when she gives you lemons n---a throw them at pedestrians

I, still live in my grandma's house

Sell out a f---ing show in London just to end up on couches

I hate my f---ing life, but when I make that announcement…

Tyler, The Creator

Goblin

Can you name any activist songs or movies? (This answer is not in the

chapter or book. Just wing it.)

“vigorous and sometimes

aggressive action in pursuing

a political or social end”

Dixie Chicks, Goodbye Earl

After charting from unsolicited airplay in

late 1999, the song was released as that

album's third single in 2000, peaking at #13

on Billboard's Hot Country Singles &

Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts

Well it wasn't two weeks

after she got married that

Wanda started gettin' abused

She put on dark glasses and long sleeved blouses

And make-up to cover a bruise

Well she finally got the nerve to file for divorce

She let the law take it from there

But Earl walked right through that restraining order

And put her in intensive care

Right away Mary Anne flew in from Atlanta

On a red eye midnight flight

She held Wanda's hand as they

worked out a plan

And it didn't take long to decided

That Earl had to die

Goodbye Earl

Those black-eyed peas

They tasted all right to me Earl

You're feeling weak

Why don't you lay down

and sleep Earl

Ain't it dark

Wrapped up in that tarp Earl?

"Fight the Power" is a song by

American hip hop group Public

Enemy, released as a single in

June 1989 on Motown Records.

Elvis was a hero to most

But he never meant sh-- to me you see

Straight up racist that sucker was

Simple and plain

Mother f--- him and John Wayne

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud

I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Sample a look back you look and find

Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

Don't worry be happy

Was a number one jam

Damn if I say it you can slap me right here

(Get it) lets get this party started right

Right on, c'mon

What we got to say

Power to the people no delay

To make everybody see

In order to fight the powers that be

Whose performance piece demanded an end to violence

against women?

http://www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/worksofart/in-

mourning-and-in-rage-media-performance-at-los-angeles-city-hall/

Fig. 3-15, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, the Temple of

Confessions, 1994

Watch Addl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txaY7ZAV5ck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfAk-guplA

•Do you agree with Guillermo Gómez-Pena when he describes the United States as

having a sense of cultural superiority over Mexico? Why or why not?

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When public art becomes activist, segments of the public are bound

to disagree with its viewpoint.

Addl., Jeff Koons, Puppies, 1992

Fig. 3-4, Chris Ofili,

The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996,

mixed media, 8’ high

Would Chris Ofili’s The Holy

Virgin Mary provoke a

similar controversy if it were

displayed in HCC-NW’s art

gallery? Why or why not?

Fig. 3-5, Edouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863 oil on canvas (o/c)

Fig. 3-7, Marcel Duchamp, Nude

Descending a Staircase, N0. 2,

1912 If you can see the person in Marcel

Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase,

No. 2, please describe where he or she is.

• Lauded as one of the most influential events in the history of American art, the Armory Show has a mythic legacy. In the wake of previous large independent art exhibitions in France, Germany, Italy, and England, from February 17th to March 15th, 1913, New York's 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th streets was home to approximately 1250 paintings, sculptures, and decorative works by over 300 European and American artists. While the purchase of Cézanne's Hill of the Poor by the Metropolitan Museum of Art signaled an integration of modernism into official art channels, the shock and outrage proported from Duchamp's Nude Descending the Staircase and Matisse's Luxury connected the Armory Show, officially known as The International Exhibition of Modern Art, with an historic avant-garde whose duty was to question the boundaries of art as an institution.

"Rude Descending a Staircase

(Rush Hour in the Subway)"

Fig. 3-9, Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, 1982 Watch: http://www.hulu.com/watch/74322/duty-honor-country-maya-ying-lins-winning-design-for-the-

vietnam-memorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNh06Mu2V5c Why do you think Maya Ying Lin’s Vietnam Memorial is the most visited site in Washington D.C.?

Addl., Piano and Rogers, Pompidou Center, Paris 1971-77

Fig. 3-12, Michelangelo, David, 1501-04, Florence Italy, marble

Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-l2BMStRcg

Dig Deeper, Stanley Kaminski, mixed media on panel, 38” high, 1994

What is your overall opinion of what many people would call the

scandalous nature of this chapter?

Considering all the forms of art today and the idea that anything can be art, what would it take to shock the art-going public today?

Ch. 3, in sum:

check yo self, before you wreck

yo self.