This is most of a the chapter called The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer. Its not as heavy as it sounds and I feel fits quite well with Warhol's notion of mass production, and the comodification of Art and celebritisation of Artist could be seen as an extension of a self propagating system of illusionary choices (e.g. if your starving or are coerced into believing you are starving, and your captor offers you 3 different kinds of S#!T to eat, you're going to go for the best tasteing/least offensive one and maybe even potentially feel somewhat grateful at the diverse range... But really, it is all still S#!T). (I am prone to dramatic over simplification.) To tell the truth this chapter makes me really angry and kind of hate myself for doing a visual arts degree. It does how ever make you think, if someone like Warhol used art as the medium to reveal to the masses the mechanisms of commercial trickery and manipulation which afflicts them, and became a house hold name by doing so. Does that mean art in cases such as Hurst, the Chapman brothers, pretty much anyone in the satchi collection and really most contemporary artist affiliated with any major institution be it public or private are, a simple and effective way of paying lip-service to a supposed alternate point of view (within reason and of course share holder expectations (bill this mean you, you dirty old bugger), has art become the seditious descent your having when you're not having real descent? is it I can't believe its not social revolution? A two bird one stone where "radical" opinions can be voiced in a language concocted in university as to baffle all but the indoctrinated few giving the politicians and CEOs the ability to point to the artists on the pay role in answer to questions of the freedom of the individual and expression, and the ruling elite get the joy of hanging distilled convoluted irony on there walls which will only ever appreciate in value?

Much more of a soap box then I meant to get on sorry I'm not actually a balshy leftist ideologue.

http//:www.marxist.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

Dale Frank

Dale Frank - Ice Age, 2010

I went to see Dale Frank at Roslyn Oxley this weekend which blew my mind. His paintings are infinitely detailed you could look at them for minutes on end. He uses a method of pouring varnish that he has refined over the last few years. This has no relevance* to this weeks topic, it would be considered abstract expressionism I think? which is kind of like the opposite to pop art in many ways. I hope some of you got a chance to visit before it finished today, if not Roslyn Oxley is a good base for emerging/established contemporary artists in Sydney.

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/

*As Amanda pointed out Pop Art is very relevant to Abstract Expressionism as it is a direct and opposite reaction to Abstract Expressionism.

Andy Warhol on pop art: need anything more be said?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4aBvnaTpo

Welcome!

It was fantastic to meet you all yesterday and great to see many of you have already signed in to our blog.

To confirm next weeks activities:

• Blogging workshop (how to sign in, post text, links and images)
• Assessment/course outline Q & A

• ART & Popular Culture discussion - (to prepare please read the Art & Today handout and have a web site reference to discuss.)

Here is a guide for weekly BLOG contributions from the course outline:

The blog contribution can be made in a number of ways. Each contribution needs to relate to the topic area for that week:

· Select an artist working within the specific topic area – research and post web links to an interesting article, exhibition listing you have found.

· Report back on an exhibition you have visited within the week and comment on whether the work you saw related to the weekly topic area. If so how? If not why?

· Post an image of your own artwork – comment on how it relates to the topic area for that week.

· Post a comment relating to news of the week / a film / a book / website.

Please feel free to contact me via email if you have any questions.

A.

reference / critique website.

http://boards.4chan.org/ic/

This is a thread based on one of the largest English images boards in the web, some good critique and random info, sometimes. However ANYONE can post - so nothing is a credible source and there is a lot of useless information. 

http://boards.4chan.org/lit/

Is another board devoted to literature.

Art & Popular Culture RESEARCH

How can we find relevant information on artists?

eg: john baldessari (b:1931 US) & shaun gladwell (b:1972 AUS)

Use the OZARTS Website >>>

TATE Collection UK >>>

MOMA Collection >>>

MCA Education Resources >>>

AGNSW Collection >>>

Art & TODAY: Annotated Bibliography + Referencing

You need to include 3 References: 1 Website, (2 other references - e.g. books)


What is an Annotated Bibliography?

What is 'Chicago' Referencing?

It is a type of referencing system used by students and academics at Sydney University and elsewhere, to arrange the information being referenced. The system is designed to make it easy for readers to trace the origin of information contained within a piece of writing - (there are other referencing systems used by different faculties within the University such as Harvard Sydney and APA - The Chicago Manual of Style 15th A, with Footnotes and Bibliography, is the reference style preferred at Sydney College of the Arts).

How do I Reference Correctly using this system?

A reference or citation consists of the elements that allow the reader to trace the original book or article you have read or cited from. When citing a book you need the following elements, in this order:

Author. Year of publication. Book title. City of publication: Name of the publisher.

For example, if you looked at a book with these elements:

Author: Mack, Charles

Year of publication: 2005

Title: Looking at the Renaissance: essays toward a conceptual appreciation

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Place of Publication: London

Your citation would look like this:

Mack, C. Looking at the Renaissance: essays toward a conceptual appreciation. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005.

How do you cite URL’s in a bibliography?

You need to acknowledge the source of all material, which you access from the Web while researching and writing your essay. This material should be acknowledged with the same respect and detail that you use when recording information about journal articles and books in your bibliography and footnotes.

SCA is currently evolving its standards for citing internet electronic resources. When citing material from the internet please keep the following basic guidelines in mind. The underlying principles for referencing material available through the World Wide Web (Internet) are largely the same as for other formats. The additions for items read or acquired over the Internet are the format, version, file address, and the date retrieved or accessed.

The elements of online reference citations are:

Author's Surname And Initial(s)

Title Of The Article Or Document

Title Of The Book Or Publication

Format

Name Of The Publisher

Place Of Publication

Version

Year Of Publication

Address Or Location

Date Retrieved Or Accessed [In Square Brackets]

Not all elements will be present in each reference.

For many Internet resources the address will be the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

This often takes a form similar to the following: http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/

The address, format and content of many electronic sources are inherently unstable, so it is recommended that the date of your visit to the host site be included along with the publication date of the material viewed where this is given.

For example:

Bird, N. 2000, Biennale of Sydney Media Release: Art in the Headlines (online), 20th May 1999

http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au//news/mediarel/mr1999/mr99107.html [Accessed 30 November 2000]

Michael Heizer (b:1944 US)

Michael Heizer, North, East, South, West, 1967/2002. Dia Art Foundation