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Baum s thesis is that artists globally responded to the aftermath of WWII the revelations of the holocaust the ensuing Cold War and the televised atrocities of the Vietnam War with art that challenged the very concept of order This strikes me as a questionable at best historical thesis Surrealism and Dada after all both pre date WWII and both were decidedly committed to shattering the safety of art space The surrealists in particular wanted to shatter the safety of the viewer subject by unearthing the suppressed violent associations one has with everyday objects by reveling in their own subconscious impulses as revealed in their work Essentially Baum is saying that late twentieth century art tended to be anarchistic I guess I would respond when has it not been in one form or another What one is left with from the show is of course the art on display The pieces which best fit into Baum s historical narrative tend to be for me the less interesting Many works included are determined to demonstrate that our means of bringing order and rationalizing mathematics cartography charts and grids themselves create their own kinds of chaos After the first such work I thought Yeah I get it Next Then there were at least a couple galleries of works making exactly the same point in near identical ways There were however clearly some highlights and these were made all the refreshing by being the work of less well known artists who I had not previously encountered Many works on display allude to violence be it domestic judicial or militaristic Jim Nutt s Miss E Knows comes dangerously close to making female battery colorful but is perhaps all the discomforting for it Similarly Peter Saul s comical play on words in Criminal Being Executed is no less powerful an indictment of statist violence for being laugh inducing Paul Theck s series of wax not quite identifiable mangled body parts Technological Reliquaries strives to be just plain creepy and succeeds But perhaps my favorite work was one of good ol fashioned feminist irreverence Hannah Wilke takes a series of photos of iconically American sites such as Grant s Tomb and covers them with cute clay vulvas Who could not love that Hardcover
| Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980 By Kelly Baum |
| 1588396339 |
| 9781588396334 |
| 236 |
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An extraordinary unconventional reevaluation of postwar art through the lens of delirium Addressing the maniacal eccentric and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980 Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s Skepticism of science and technology along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction developed into a distrust of rationalism which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects from rational means Disturbing and challenging these works upended traditional notions of aesthetic harmony This thought provoking book features work by approximately 70 artists from Europe Latin America and the United States including Dara Birnbaum Le n Ferrari Bruce Nauman Howardena Pindell Peter Saul Nancy Spero and many others Placing the fascination with delirium within historical literary political and cultural contexts it offers a provocative view of how like minded artists experimented with irrational subject matter and techniques ranging from sculpture painting photography and works on paper to film video and book design and forged a new aesthetic that directly responded to the unbalanced times in which they were created Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason 1950 1980.