Elevating the
Ordinary
Narratives on the Everyday
Stage 2/3
Mini-Programme 2
Contextual and Critical Studies
Andrea Peach
Elevating the
Ordinary
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Situating the Everyday
Lecture 1
Lecture 1: A Brief History
Damien Hirst
Holidays/No
Feelings 1989
Sarah Lucas
Au Naturel 1994
Garry Knox
Bennett
Torch light 1996
Peter van der
Jagt (Droog)
Bottoms Up
Doorbell 1994
Édouard Manet
A Bar at the Folies Bergère, 1882
Marcel Duchamp
The Ready-made
Fountain 1917
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Still Life with Chair Caning
1912
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Introduction of everyday
images and objects
Concerned with Epistemology
Challenged the Viewer
Brings together ‘life on street’
and life in studio
Marcel Duchamp
Cubism
(1887-1968)
Nude Descending a Staircase (No 2)
1912
Marcel Duchamp
The Ready-made
(1887-1968)
Bicycle Wheel 1913
(1964 replica)
Marcel Duchamp
The Ready-made
(1887-1968)
… a lovely form has been
revealed, freed from its
functional purpose,
therefore a man clearly has
made an aesthetic
contribution. Mr Mutt has
taken an ordinary object,
placed it so its useful
significance disappears,
and thus has created a new
approach to the subject.
Marcel Duchamp
The Ready-made
(1887-1968)
… Whether Mr Mutt with his
own hands made the
fountain or not has no
importance. He CHOSE it.
He took an ordinary article
of life, placed it so that its
useful significance
disappeared under the new
title and point of view created a new thought for
that object.
Marcel Duchamp
The Ready-made
(1887-1968)
a manmade object may appear
‘a very trivial thing and
easily understood’… But ‘it is,
in reality, a very queer thing,
abounding in metaphysical
subtleties and theological
niceties’
Karl Marx (Das Kapital 1867-94)
Bottle Rack 1914
Man Ray (1890-1976)
The Ready-made
Gift 1921
Dada
Francis Picabia
(1879-1953)
Art is everywhere…
except with the dealers
of Art, in the temples of
Art, like God is
everywhere, except in
the churches.
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia - The Cacodylic Eye - 1921
Dada
Francis Picabia
(1879-1953)
Francis Picabia
Portrait of a Young American Girl in
the State of Nudity 1915
Surrealism
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Man Ray - The Enigma of Isidore Duchasse 1920
Surrealism
Meret Oppenheim
Meret Oppenhiem
Fur Covered Tea Cup, Saucer and Spoon, 1936
Surrealism
Salvadore Dali
(1904-1989)
Salvador Dali
Lobster Telephone, 1936
Sigmund Freud
The Uncanny
(1856-1939)
Heimlich = Homely
Unheimlich = Unhomely
The uncanny is not to be found in
the exotic, but in the everyday
The Everyday
Walter Benjamin
(1892-1940)
The revolutionary strength of Dadaism lay in testing art for its
authenticity. You made still-lifes out of tickets, spools of cotton,
cigarette stubs, and mixed them together with pictorial
elements. You put a frame round the whole thing. And in this
way you said to the public: look, your picture frame destroys
time; the smallest authentic fragment of everyday life
says more than painting. Just as a murder’s bloody
fingerprint on a page says more than the words printed on it.
(1934)