Word: objecthood
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...collection. “He has an amazing feel for the materiality of the various surfaces he engages in his artwork,” Katsnelson says. “He navigates a kind of multilingual pictorial space, where the two-dimensionality of the canvas and the real life objecthood of the found elements are in a dialogue.”The second grouping features pieces that use more realistic strategies. These images pushed the boundaries by employing the realistic methods that the Soviets encouraged but with controversial subjects. For example, artist Boris Sveshnikov uses his work to portray the harsh...
...good things in it, notably a Robert Motherwell entitled In Plato 's Cave I, an exquisitely subtle geometrical painting by Agnes Martin, and some sculptures by Joel Shapiro and H.C. Estermann. But the art has been jammed into a Procrustean set of categories - "cultural irony," "narrative art," "objecthood" and so on. It all comes out looking pedagogical and unreal. To read Art Historian Sam Hunter laboring to convince himself and others that Andy Warhol (represented here by one 14-year-old painting) is really a narrative artist, although "nothing actually happens in the sense of conventional storytelling...
...especially grey day I was down in her room unburdening myself as she was stretching her hair and wrapping it up again before the mirror. I was telling her, finally, what I'd always been too embarrassed to tell anybody: it had to do with my hating sexual objecthood--that all the male attention was too big a cross to bear, that it made me feel like an animal on the defensive, all the time. And suddenly she wheeled around with a screaming red-blotched face, ripping herself out of bathrobe and bra until she was white and naked before...
...exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status as a sex object. It was this objecthood, having one's identity consigned to the status of an object, that Feminism reared up against. Because objecthood meant being a member of a psychologically subordinate class, it meant dependence on men for self-definition, and crippling your identity to fit the shape of the one already...