Wednesday, 18 May 2011

The expanded field in relation to sculpting

The expanded field as detailed by Krauss seems helpful in determining certain boundaries but I feel like it is sort of unnecessary. On the one hand, it is sort of nice to know where you stand as an artist but why does it matter if you include one element over another or where you put it. To me that seems like you are more focused on labeling the artwork than creating it. Sculpture could be a term that is used an umbrella and you could have a bunch of sub-sections of it if you want but still at the end of the day the art piece is what it is no matter what you call it. Double Negative will still be this huge gigantic hole in the ground (for lack of a better word) no matter if you try to describe it as something else. The same goes for any work by anyone else. In class we talked about Krauss taking on Greenberg who is notoriously known for speaking out against mixed media, I would argue that these names or labels that we give to classify art, doesn’t control the artwork itself, sure you might say that the rules to any given classification help to reinforce the values and give it meaning but the artwork could exist without the classification but the classification can’t exist without the artwork.

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