Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Wallace, Miriam
Keywords
Contemporary Art, Postmodernism, Performance
Area of Concentration
Humanities
Abstract
This thesis explores a selection of literature, video installation, and performance, which borrow from the familiar "pop culture" domain of genre fiction, daytime television programming, and saint's day parades to render accessible postmodern theoretical concerns about the nature of aesthetic experience. Characteristically disclosing numerous other entities whose presence helps define live acts as art, they are self-conscious of the fact that they have no function other than their generation of aesthetic experiences. Conditions guaranteeing the possibility of aesthetic experience are multiply visible, since each re-presents the process of its own production. Internally emphasizing the realities that exceed its boundaries, Calvino's novel shows how a pleasurable reading experience is contingent upon a carefully circumscribed set of possibilities. Jankowski's video installations re-present his own involvement in television, thereby calling attention to the fact that the artist is not solely responsible. Finally, Al�s's procession was literally a process of marching "MoMA's most sacred icons" across New York City, providing public access to the process by which a live event is identified as art.
Recommended Citation
Mausner, Emile, "You Are About To Begin Reading Accessibility and Postmodernist Performance in Italo Calvino's if on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Christian Jankowski's Telemistica, the Holy Artwork, Talk Athens, Art Market Tv, and Francis Al�s's The Modern Procession" (2012). Theses & ETDs. 4643.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/4643
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