Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Critical Theory”
The first purely abstract painting is generally recognised as Wassily Kandinsky‘s ‘Untitled – First abstraction‘ of 1910. This is in the header above. Kandinsky had been edging towards that style of painting, with his dreamlike fairy tales using ‘flat’ colour fields. This painting started an artistic revolution. But what is also very interesting is the way that his writings about art …
Martha Rosler, Decoys and Disruptions (2004) Lookers, Buyers, Dealers And Makers: Thoughts On Audience (1979) ‘More and more clearly the subject of art has become the self … photography heading for galleries must be reseen … not in relation to its subject but in relation to … its producer’. (pg 37, 1979) I guess we all need our 15 minutes of …
