Discussion is framed by rosalind krauss influential exploration of art s expanded field, itself an attempt to rethink art as an analytic object in the face of a multiplication of artistic practices, materials, operations and sites. While krauss s 1979 essay identified sculpture s placement within an expanded field as a condition of postmodernism, the study of drawing might suggest alternative models for thinking about historical continuity and rupture within cultural practices. After quitting her editor position at artforum to found october in 1976, krauss published her most famous essay, sculpture in the expanded field. Rosalind krauss, reinventing the medium, critical inquiry25 winter 1999. Rosalind epstein krauss born november 30, 1941 is an american art critic, art theorist and a professor at columbia university in new york city. Rosalind krauss, grids, in the originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths, cambridge, mass. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths the mit press.
Sculpture in the expanded field in this article, krauss summarized the development of the american sculpture in 60s and 70s as two major trends. Retracing the expanded field revisits krauss s hugely influential text and maps the ensuing interactions between art and architecture. Krauss is the kind of paradox one only finds in the art world. As a critic and theorist she has published steadily since 1965 in artforum, art international and art in america. Sep 29, 2010 sculpture in the expanded field by rosealind krauss in the hands of this criticism categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity, a display of the way a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything. At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic rosalind krauss had written a seminal text entitled sculpture in the expanded field, in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time such as the work of richard serra, robert smithson, mary miss, and donald judd whose practices crossed outside of the limits of traditional sculpture and entered into the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Rosalind krauss, a sculpture in the expanded field,a october, no. Mmu miriad aah conference 2009 drawing in the expanded. Rosalind krauss in sculpture in the expanded field discuss the transformation in the field of art particularly sculpture. Rosalind krauss, klein group, illustration, sculpture in the expanded field, 1979.
Sculpture in the expanded field by rosalind krauss a student of greenberg, rosalind krauss eventually criticized her former teacher for being too simplistic and too focused on medium specificity. Weld intro to studio, woodshop and welding studio times and training. Rosalind krauss is a highly influential art critic and theorist whose career was launched in the postabstract expressionist era when she began theorizing about how newer artistic movements required a different analytical approach than what traditional methods dictated. Krauss passages in modern sculpture lorenzo sculptures. Prior to this investigation, my interest in sculpture led me to rosalind krauss essay sculptur e in the expanded field krauss, 1979. These past weeks you have been playing and experimenting with different software with the ultimate goal to produce a digital media artwork.
In 1979, reacting against contemporary arts transformation of modernist mediumspecificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian rosalind krauss published an essay, sculpture in the expanded field, that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Abstraction and australian sculpture sculpture in the expanded field, rosalind krauss s influential essay on sculpture after modernism, begins from the. For this assignment, read rosalind krauss article sculpture in the expanded field and include at least one image example of sculpture from the 1960s and 1970s. Its always a stretch to understand just what contemporary artists are up to and the book gives us a context from which you can begin to piece together whats happening. How to understand rosalind krauss, the art critic who made. Closer to it, the large square face of the pit can be seen, as can the ends of the ladder that is needed to descend into the excavation. Whilst, as i mentioned in reading group, i found it hard to get beyond the mathematical complications of page 37 and am currently still attempting to. Sculpture in the expanded field 279 of course, with the passing of time these sweeping operations got a little harder to perform. Rosalind earned her bachelors degree in art history from wellesley college in 1962, the same year she became married to the architect, richard i. Krauss she is a founding editor of october and the author of passages in modern sculpture, the originality of the avantgarde and other myths, the optical unconscious, bachelors, perpetual inventory, under blue cup all published by the mit press, and other books. In that famous text, krauss tried to articulate a new frame of reference for art works that began to appear in the early 1960s and that stretched the limits of the conventional.
Format and image in 20th century art krauss, rosalind on. The traditional sculpture has been lost between notarchitecture and notlandscape. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths. Bootleg pdf of rosalind krauss the originality of the avanteguard and other modernist myths, 1986. Citing for examples the works of the likes of, mary miss, robert smithson, richard serra, and many others, rosalind krauss noted that sculptural practices since the late 1960s had expanded far beyond sculpture. Initially looking at how lightbased works such as holographic.
The zhivskulptarch paintingsculpturearchitecture collective formed in 1919 and was committed to examining the formal achievements of modernist artists in order to revolutionise. At this point rosalind krauss s essay sculpture in the expanded field in october 1979 jumped in to reconstrue the foundations of what art practices were and were not and what they could become. Along with the digital archives, quantitative analyses, and. And the most recent contributions to the critique of the expanded field featured in this book also demonstrate that there are many theorists and practitioners willing and capable of carrying on with that task. She explores the diversification that has led to the broadening of sculpture definition and structure that was evident in. Krauss has published her most influential art writings within the pages of october. Apr 01, 20 similar ideas are defended by my belgian colleague philippe marion, who has coined the notion of medium genius a madiaganiea, whose actual meaning is very close to what cavell signifies by automatism. Frame creation and design in the expanded field sciencedirect. Sep 08, 2015 click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. Though the theoryheavy art journal shes famous for foundingoctoberonly has a circulation of about 2,000 people, and her myriad books and articles remain littleread outside of academic circles, she is considered one of the most influential critics of modern and contemporary art. Responding to krauss and revisiting the milieu from which her text emerged, artists, architects, and art historians of different generations offer their perspectives on the legacy of sculpture in the expanded. Systems art systems aesthetics and the system as medium. Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field 1979, in the originality of the avantgarde.
Her father instilled in rosalind a love for the arts, and would frequently take her to museums in the washington, d. One of the most important insights of krauss s essay sculpture in the expanded field 6 6. Rosalind krauss journal essay provides an insightful look at sculptures recent past and significant evolution. The grid as a checkpoint of modernity tate papers tate. Sarah smutskennedy light language natasha conland sarah. Krauss is known for her scholarship in 20thcentury painting, sculpture and photography. This article takes its name from the 1978 essay by rosalind krauss titled sculpture in the expanded field, which perfectly documents the phenomenon of post1960s artists working in an expanded medium that encompasses elements of architecture, landscape, nature, and traditional sculpture. It was the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.
In 1979, reacting against contemporary art s transformation of modernist mediumspecificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian rosalind krauss published an essay, sculpture in the expanded field, that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. Nov 20, 2017 the grid is an introjection of the boundaries of the world into the interior of the work. In the article, sculpture in the expanded field rosalind krauss describes her own intention as being an attempt to map out the determinant structure that developed from the sculptural practices of the 1960s and 70s krauss, p44. Thus conceived, systems aesthetics allows for an expanded field of practice implying a shift from singular art objects to the use of systems as artistic mediums. This is more or less the same question that rosalind krauss tried to answer in her seminal paper on the revolutionary developments in sculpture, sculpture in the expanded field. Sep 11, 2014 response to rosalind krausss grids september 11, 2014 pauline leave a comment rosalind krauss is a professor at columbia who wrote this essay in the mid 1980s, exploring the idea of the grid as it resists development, the grid as representing the modernity of modern art both spatially and temporally. Throughout his career, morris has ceaselessly invented new ways of doing, gone against established genres, attempted to. Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field 1979 its a wretched day for writers and their texts when we hold them to account for all those lives ahead of them. But what can rosalind krauss s 1979 essay on sculpture bring to these twentyfirst century concerns of writing. In that text krauss set up a diagram of relations and distinctions that for the first time placed the sculpture. Response to rosalind krausss grids musings on zany. Rosalind epstein krauss 1941 is an american art critic and theorist. Grids by rosalind krauss by kristin buechelmaier on prezi.
Krauss mit press, 1986 the originality of the avant garde rosalind krauss this summer the national gallery in washington installed what it proudly describes as the largest rodin exhibition, ever. Krauss first became interested in 20thcentury art criticism as an undergraduate at wellesley. Sculpture in the expanded field by rosealind krauss up the. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths the mit press krauss, rosalind e. Archived sculpture in the expanded field by rosalind krauss, 1979 pdf. Art historiography in the expanded field for art history. Closer to it, the large square face of the pit can be seen, as can the ends of. American rosalind krauss is an american art critic, professor, and theorist who is based at columbia university.
By virtue of this logic a sculpture is a commemorative representation. Art in theory the important work of critic rosalind krauss. The logic of sculpture, it would seem, is inseparable from the logic of the monument. Pdf rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field. This essay did not describe a specific method of defining sculpture but rather began. An expanded version of the essay is reprinted in james coleman, ed.
Sep 11, 2012 the title entrepreneurship in the expanded field alludes to the essay by rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field pdf. Rosalind krauss journal essay provides an insightful look at sculpture s recent past and significant evolution. I f the publication of the first volume of debates in the digital humanities in 2012 marked the digital humanities moment, this volumeand the series that will bear its nameconfirms that the digital humanities, as a field, has arrived. It is a mode of repetition, the content of which is the conventional nature of art itself. Publicou inumeros artigos sobre arte moderna, tendo alcancado destaque por seu conhecimento em pintura, escultura e fotografia do seculo xx. The zhivskulptarch painting sculpture architecture collective formed in 1919 and was committed to examining the formal achievements of modernist artists in order to revolutionise. As krauss remarks, the expanded field is thus generated by problematizing the set of oppositions between which the modernist category sculpture is suspended. In order to diagram the relationships among the various disciplines that constitute the new expanded field of architecture it might be useful to return to rosalind krauss s groundbreaking 1979 essay sculpture in the expanded field. A new field of study was established, one concerned solely with the history and theory of art. Rosalind krauss considered by many to be the most important art critic aliveinextricably tied her name to militant criticism beginning in the mid1960s with the american magazine artforum and, subsequently, october, which she founded in 1976 and in which she published one of her most celebrated writings.
Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field 1979 essay here. Calendar sculpture 2 2014 the expanded field week 1 january 27. Look up rosalind krauss s sculpture in the expanded field and youll find a picture of haze. As the 1960s began to lengthen into the 1970s and sculpture began to be piles of thread waste on the floor, or sawed redwood timbers rolled into. Krauss primarily built a reputation for feminist, deconstructionist and psychoanalytic methodology 1 she developed during. Krauss, university professor at columbia university and an editor and cofounder of october magazine, is the author of the originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths 1985, the optical unconscious 1993, the picasso papers 1999, and bachelors 1999, all published by the mit press, and coauthor with yvealain bois.
Rosalind krauss biography, art, and analysis of works. By now you should be aware of the characterisics of the media, their strenghts and limitations i. Although the krauss was published first in 1976, 3 years before burens article was published in the same journal, buren wrote the article in 1971. That the word was common to rhetoric so diametrically opposedgene youngbloods expanded cinema as expanded consciousness on the one hand, rosalind krausss expanded field of sculpture on the otherhas been a longstanding academic curiosity, the gulf between them common knowledge yet its full implications not considered. Like many, krauss had been drawn to the criticism of clement greenberg, as a counterweight to the highly subjective, poetic approach of harold rosenberg. Sculpture in the expanded field art history 389 with. Not only was this the greatest public gathering of rodins sculpture, but it included, as well, much of his work never before.
Sculpture in the expanded field rosalind krauss toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the earth, which is the only warning given for the presence of the work. Frame creation and design in the expanded field 23. A museum of language in the vicinity of art, robert smithsons wellknown intervention from 1968, sought to align the contemporary practice of artists writings with the production of art itself. Here is an example of krauss writing from her seminal 1979 article, sculpture in the expanded field. In a wellknown article by rosalind krauss, written at the end of the 70s and titled sculpture in the expanded field, the art critic and theorist set out to situate and analyses vanguard practices in contemporary sculpture, looking at works by. Sculpture in the expanded field by rosalind krauss, 1979. Krauss, rosalind, sculpture in the expanded field, october, 8, 3044 1979. In the magazines 8th volume, she published her essay sculpture in the expanded field, a brilliant piece of writing that explained the vastly expanded viewpoint of sculpture. Krauss on william kentridges norton lectures, artforum international, summer 2012, pp 121122. How do krauss ideas relate to the notion of structuralism. The diagram at the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic rosalind krauss wrote a seminal text entitled sculpture in the expanded field in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time. Toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the earth, which is the only warning given for the presence of the work.
For the first session we read two articles to be read in tandem. Krauss rosalind 1979 sculpture in the expanded field. Such a demarginalisation conceived the publication as a site, one that rosalind krauss would in turn come to define as an expanded field. It sits in a particular place and speaks in a symbolical tongue about the meaning or use. The expansion to which i am referring is called a klein group when employed mathematically and has various other designations, among them the piaget group, when used by structuralists involved in mapping operations within the human sciences. She is a professor at columbia university in new york city. Krauss, american art critic and historian of 20thcentury art who first came to prominence when she accused the art critic clement greenberg of mishandling the estate of sculptor david smith.
Sculpture in the expanded field by rosalind krauss, 1979 pdf. Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field sculpture in the expanded field, october, 8. Firstly, the representative works, such as rodins gates of hell and the statue of balzac, broke the practice of traditional monument scultpure, which released the traditional sculpture. While many viewers stand mouths agape at the idea of clipping and adhering hundreds of thousands of straws, im indifferent to labor and duration.
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