Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Tate Gallery Glossary
I found this useful glossary on the Tate website (the Tate is an organisation that runs several art galleries in England). It has definitions of various art-related terms.
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Thanks Puppy, that was very helpful. The mention of Tate reminded me the kind of artwork they bought few years ago. Tate paid about $40, 000 dollars for 30 grams of canned faeces of a famous Italian artist who died in the 60’s(his name Piero Manzoni).The artist labled the cans '100% pure artist's shit'. The question is when does human excrement become an artwork? And why? What kinds of criteria justify it?
Interesting example, Mr. Kidane.
Perhaps the artist's faeces and its value could be compared with Wim Delvoye's "Cloaca", which is an art installation that actually makes faeces. You pour in the food at one end and it travels through a number of chambers containing digestive enzymes and so on, and out comes the final product. You can actually buy some of this as your own personal memento.
Go to http://www.cloaca.be/machines.htm
What is this all about? How does this fit in with the purposes and criteria for art? What do you think the artist was trying to "say"?
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