Sculpture in the expanded field rosalind krauss toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the earth, which is the only warning given for the presence of the work. Cofounder and coeditor of october magazine, a veteran of artforum of the 1960s andearly 1970s, rosalind krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory ofpostmodernism. Rosalind krauss journal essay provides an insightful look at sculptures recent past and significant evolution. Not only was this the greatest public gathering of rodins sculpture, but it included, as well, much of his work never before. The challenge of bringing theoretical texts to screen was one i had never envisaged before. Sculpture in the expanded field, october, spring 1979. The expanded field of writing in the works of robert. To our right was a copper painting by frank stella, its surface burnished by the light which flooded the room. How solid is the reasoning of this art world heavyhitter.
Toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the which is the only warning given for. Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field 1979, in. Pdf sculpture in the expanded field semantic scholar. Pdf retracing the expanded field encounters between art.
Rosalind epstein krauss born november 30, 1941 is an american art critic, art theorist and a professor at columbia university in new york city. This title pays homage to rosalind krauss seminal essay sculpture in an expanded field krauss 1979. Toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the earth, which is the only warning. The grid as a checkpoint of modernity tate papers tate. Art in theory the important work of critic rosalind krauss. As sculpture moved away from being solely threedimensional works in a gallery, krauss expressed the expanded field as lying between not landscape and not architecture. By virtue of this logic a sculpture is a commemorative representation. It sits in a particular place and speaks in a symbolical tongue about the meaning or use. Mar 21, 20 phillip osullivan examines the logic of krauss s famous expanded field art theory. At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic rosalind krauss had written a seminal text entitled sculpture in the expanded field, in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time, such as the work of richard serra, robert smithson, mary miss, and donald judd. At the forefront of contemporary arts criticism and theory, october focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation. Architecture in the expanded field cca wattis institute for. Throughout his career, morris has ceaselessly invented new ways of doing, gone against established genres, attempted to. Grids rosalind krauss unit 4 creativity and context.
In 1979, reacting against contemporary arts transformation of modernist mediumspecificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian rosalind krauss published an essay, sculpture in the expanded field, that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. In her seminal essay grids, the art historian rosalind krauss claimed that the grid functions to declare the modernity of modern art. As a critic and theorist she has published steadily since 1965 in artforum, art international and art in america. Rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field 1979, in the originality of the avantgarde.
This is precisely what caught the attention of art historian rosalind krauss, who had, in the late 1970s, begun to theorize a new form of art. At this point rosalind krausss essay sculpture in the expanded field in october 1979 jumped in to reconstrue the foundations of what art practices were and were not and what they could become. The impact on the field of architecture of rosalind krauss s essay the expanded field and the book optical unconscious, towards the formulation of a conceptual approach to architecture through. Conversely, where much of krausss earlier work may be read as a deconstruction, if not outright rejection of medium talkthink of rosalind krauss, sculpture in the expanded field, the originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths cambridge, mass. And despite reservations i have about some of her ideas the polemic nature of her writing was what drew me to her work. Rosalind earned her bachelors degree in art history from wellesley college in 1962, the same year she became married to the architect, richard i. Rosalind krauss a escultura em campo expandido pdf. Responding to krauss and revisiting the milieu from which her text emerged, artists, architects, and art historians of different generations offer their perspectives on the legacy of sculpture in the expanded. Toward the center of the field there is a slight mound, a swelling in the earth, which is the only warning given for the. The museum in the expanded field amazon web services.
Weld intro to studio, woodshop and welding studio times and training. Krauss mit press, 1986 the originality of the avant garde rosalind krauss this summer the national gallery in washington installed what it proudly describes as the largest rodin exhibition, ever. In that famous text, krauss tried to articulate a new frame of reference for art works that began to appear in the early 1960s and that stretched the limits of the conventional. Krauss is university professor in the department of art history at columbia university, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the meyer schapiro chair in modern art and theory. Closer to it, the large square face of the pit can be seen, as can the ends of the ladder that is needed to descend into the excavation. Drawing a parallel with rosalind krausss notion of sculpture in the expanded field, this article documents the development of interdisciplinary fashion practices, suggesting that an expanded field allows fashion. I propose to relate the diagrams put forth by rosalind krauss in her 1979 essay sculpture in the.
Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, october addresses a broad range of readers. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared inoctober, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced. Cofounder and coeditor of october magazine, a veteran of artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, rosalind krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism in this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in october, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced. Obversion, chance, and the unconscious of optics donald kunze1 the first part of this essay revisited rosalind krausss landmark essay, sculpture in the expanded field, published in the journal october 1979. An incomplete interim sketch of an ongoing examination. She is a founding editor of october and the author of passages in modern sculpture, the originality of the avantgarde and other myths, the optical unconscious, bachelors, perpetual inventory, under blue cup. In the early part of this century there began to appear, first in france and then in russia and in holland, a structure that has remained emblematic of the modernist ambition within the visual arts ever since. Pdf rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field. A view of modernism rosalind krauss one day while the show, three american painters was hanging at the fogg museum at harvard, michael fried and i were standing in one of the galleries. This article takes its name from the 1978 essay by rosalind krauss titled sculpture in the expanded field, which perfectly documents the phenomenon of post1960s artists working in an expanded medium that encompasses elements of architecture, landscape, nature, and traditional sculpture. Which is to say, they landed in the present, and everything else was declared. Krauss books and essays are staples of art teaching, perhaps none more so than her essay sculpture in the expanded. Krauss is known for her scholarship in 20thcentury painting, sculpture and photography. Rosalind krauss is a highly influential art critic and theorist whose career was launched in the postabstract expressionist era when she began theorizing about how newer artistic movements required a different analytical approach than what traditional methods dictated.
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Though the theoryheavy art journal shes famous for foundingoctoberonly has a circulation of about 2,000 people, and her myriad books and articles remain littleread outside of academic circles, she is considered one of the most influential critics of modern and contemporary art. Rosalind epstein krauss is an american art critic and theorist. Though the theoryheavy art journal shes famous for foundingoctoberonly has a circulation of about 2,000 people, and her myriad books and articles remain littleread outside of academic circles, she is considered one of the most influential critics of modern and. Whilst historiography is today a burgeoning mode of enquiry for the subject, the majority of work. Krauss primarily built a reputation for feminist, deconstructionist and psychoanalytic. An expanded version of the essay is reprinted in james coleman, ed. The logic of sculpture, it would seem, is inseparable from the logic of the monument. The subtitle of this book, the expanded field of writing, references rosalind krausss seminal article12 of 1979. The impact on the field of architecture of rosalind krausss essay the expanded field and the book optical unconscious, towards the formulation of a conceptual approach to. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths. Retracing the expanded field revisits krauss s hugely influential text and maps the ensuing interactions between art and architecture. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist.
At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic rosalind krauss had written a seminal text entitled sculpture in the expanded field, in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time such as the work of richard serra, robert smithson, mary miss, and donald judd whose practices crossed outside of the limits of traditional sculpture and entered into the. The position paper rosalind krauss writing can read as is often avoided in contemporary art writing. Sculpture in the expanded field the mit press stable url. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths en 1985. At the end of the late 1970s, art theorist and critic rosalind krauss had written a seminal text entitled sculpture in the expanded field, in an attempt to both locate and analyze vanguard sculptural practices of the time such as the work of richard serra, robert smithson, mary miss, and donald judd whose practices crossed outside of the limits of traditional sculpture and. Retracing the expanded field revisits krausss hugely influential text and maps the ensuing interactions between art and architecture. Krauss is the kind of paradox one only finds in the art world. How to understand rosalind krauss, the art critic who made. She is still regarded as one of 20thcenturys foremost art critics and theorists on modern and postmodern art, while her indepth analyses of individual artists like picasso, giacometti and pollock are respected as leading resources for art pundits interested.
Rosalind krauss biography, art, and analysis of works. This session intends to perform just such an action upon the discipline of art history. Creating a framework for the future in her essay, sculpture in the expanded field, 1979 rosalind krauss. Rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field sculpture. That theory, most famously published in her influential article sculpture in the expanded field october, 1979, was built on masons work not despite, but because of its ceramic identity. Oct 19, 2019 rosalind krauss a escultura em campo expandido pdf. Such a demarginalisation conceived the publication as a site, one that rosalind krauss would in turn come to define as an expanded field. Ancg tcodir o karus, sspucetrus wl e ie hrneytndeclda. This article takes its name from the 1978 essay by rosalind krauss titled sculpture in the expanded field, which perfectly documents the phenomenon of post1960s artists working in an expanded medium that encompasses elements of architecture, landscape, nature. Pdf retracing the expanded field encounters between art and.
Rosalind krauss, reinventing the medium, critical inquiry25 winter 1999. Rosalind krauss sculpture in the expanded field free download as pdf file. The originality of the avantgarde and other modernist myths, mit, rosalind epstein krauss is an. Her father instilled in rosalind a love for the arts, and would frequently take her to museums in the washington, d. Art historiography in the expanded field for art history.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Whilst, as i mentioned in reading group, i found it hard to get beyond the mathematical complications of page 37 and am currently still attempting to. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared inoctober, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced achange in our. This is more or less the same question that rosalind krauss tried to answer in her seminal paper on the revolutionary developments in sculpture, sculpture in the expanded field. According to rosalind krauss, barnett newman once defined modern sculpture as what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. Aug 17, 2012 through heroic works such as spiral jetty and by contrast through the abject partially buried woodshed, smithson ushered in a new paradigm of sculpture as rosalind krauss described in her seminal 1974 essay sculpture in the expanded field.