Challenged, expanded, and revitalized our notion of what art is. In the environmental work running fence, six miles of parachute material mounted on poles were stretched across sonoma, california, to the sea. The entire ranching community and the California Office of Environmental Protection were involved in deciding whether the fence would be allowed and, indirectly, whether this was a work of art at all. The controversy was part of the experience. At the same time, attempts were being made in urban environments to respond to criticisms that our culture had become dehumanized. New ways were sought for art to reach the people. In the early seventies, the idea of the museum changes. When the Pompidou Center in paris was planned, it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. It was to become a factory of information, a sort of center for news, a center for the masses, a kind of supermarket for culture. The idea was that the square and all the area around the building was more important in a
One which led away from what he considered to be the historical exhaustion of painting and sculpture. Spiral jetty is now underwater, but the concept of earthworks like this challenged, expanded, and revitalized our notion of what art is. In the environmental work running fence, six miles of parachute material mounted on poles were stretched across sonoma, california, to the sea. The entire ranching community and the California Office of Environmental Protection were involved in deciding whether the fence would be allowed and, indirectly, whether this was a work of art at all. The controversy was part of the experience. At the same time, attempts were being made in urban environments to respond to criticisms that our culture had become dehumanized. New ways were sought for art to reach the people. In the early seventies, the idea of the museum changes. When the Pompidou Center in paris was planned, it was envisioned as a kind of antimuseum. It was to become a factory of information, a
The events of world war ii cast a shadow over the rest of the century and perhaps over the rest of history. Inevitably, they changed the course of western art. In europe, the unbelievable scale of the nazi genocide against the jews left europeans with the task not only of restoring their broken cities, but of repairing their shattered culture. In america, the explosion of the first atom bomb in the deserts of the southwest meant that medieval mans fears might come true, that the world might be destroyed in a single terrifying apocalypse. It was against this background that the postwar artists created their art. While europeans couldnt forget their past, in america, artists turned their backs on what they saw as the public and political dimension of art. The abstract expressionists, centered in new york, escaped to an interior world, where the subject of landscape and the struggle with brushwork and pigment became the goal of painting. For the first time, europe looked to new york. Abst
And by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose jeff koons is having a moment. The new yorker magazine calls him the most original, controversial, and expensive american artist of the past three and a half decades. His playful and provocative work pushes the bounds. His sculpture balloon dog orange sold for 58. 4 million. It is the most expensive piece of art sold pie a living artist at auction. And the Whitney Museum presenting koons first retrospective. The here is a look. You know, i always like the way they make me feel. I feel like i come into contact with my feelings and ive always loved them. Rose when you see all that you have done, and you know its there in that museum, what do you think . You know, its been nice for me to look at some of the images because, you know, i dont live with all of those pieces. So a lot of them are kind of jus
Hour, next. And by bloomberg. A provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose jeff koons is having a moment. The new yorker magazine calls him the most original, controversial, and expensive american artist of the past three and a half decades. His playful and provocative work pushes the bounds. His sculpture balloon dog orange sold for 58. 4 million. It is the most expensive piece of art sold pie a living artist at auction. And the Whitney Museum presenting koons first retrospective. The here is a look. You know, i always like the way they make me feel. I feel like i come into contact with my feelings and ive always loved them. Rose when you see all that you have done, and you know its there in that museum, what do you think . You know, its been nice for me to look at some of the images because, you know, i dont live with all of those pieces. So a lot of them are