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“The artist is not responsible to anyone. His social role is asocial; his only responsibility consists in an attitude, an attitude in the work he does. The artwork comes into being in the artist’s head, and it stays in the artist’s head. There is no communication with any public whatsoever. ”
- George Baselitz
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Model: artist as skilled workerMyth1: artist as great technician, virtuoso (non-critical role)myth2: artist as rule-breaker, anarchist
Model: Artist as IntellectualMyth1: artist as genius (from Renaissance; focus on individuality)Myth2: artist as naïve innocent
Model: Artist as EntrepeneurMyth1: professional/marketable; artist as independent hero (cult of personality)Myth2: starving artist
Model: Artist as Social CriticMyth1: artist as social critic Myth2: bohemian or social parasite (by way of a devaluing of artists’ activities; usually by groups threatenedby social criticism)
Model: Artist as Social HealerMyth1: artist as mystic
Myth2: artist as charlatan, trickster, fraud
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Pino SignorettoJeff KoonsHanging Heart
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Henry Rousseau
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Joseph KosuthThree Hammers1965 Buzz Spector
Freeze Freud1992
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Vincent Van GoghPablo Picasso
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Helen Frankenthaler
Nature Abhors a Vacuum1973, Acrylic on canvas
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Mike KellyPay for your Pleasure1988
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The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967, Bruce Naumann
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
The Social Mirror, 1983
Touch Sanitation 1978-80
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Joseph Bueys
The Pack, 1969
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Implications of Social Roles:
Are these stereotypes true? Are they useful?
Responses:
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The creation of the myths is an act of cultural appropriation, as
Hal Foster explains: these myths then serve as “substitutes for
active social expression and as alibis for consumerist
management”
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He considered what the German artist Joseph Beuys once described as “the enlarged conception of Art,” which includes, as Beuys put it, “every human action.” Life itself might be a work of art, Mr. Lowe realized: art can be the way people live.
http://www.nytimes .com/2006/12/17/arts/design/17kimm.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=cb028cf20506be7b&ex=1324011600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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Dan Peterman, Villa Deponie
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