Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Chalk, 2008
Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975
Amy Balkin, Public Smog
Tania Bruguera, Tribute to Ana Mendieta, 1985-1996
Carrie Mae Weems, Roaming, film, 2006
James Luna, Artifact Piece, performance, 1987
“How can we think about history differently through feeling about history differently?”
Warhol taking Duchamp’s picture (photo by Nat Finkelstien)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, untitled (Double Portrait), 1991
Louise Lawler, Birdcalls, 1972/1981
Dan Graham, TV Camera/Monitor Performance, 1970
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Palace of Art, 1857
Perhaps today we could say that beauty is the experience of material reality as something that resists instrumentalization. It doesn’t matter whether that material reality calls itself art or not. It could be the experience of any cultural object-or a person, or an aspect of nature. Perhaps it inspires love rather than disinterest, passion rather than contemplation-or am I getting too enthusiastic?
