Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kalaidjian, Walter B

Titel

Mainlining Postmodernism: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and the Art of Intervention

Ist Teil von

• Postmodern culture, 1992-05, Vol.2 (3)

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In addition to showings on the themes of "Women and Politics" at the Intar Latin American Gallery and "Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art" at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., both the Graduate Center of the City of University of New York and a network of private galleries affiliated with "Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America" featured works that reflected on American imperialism in the Third World. 2. The epochal shifts in technological reproduction, and collective systems of design, packaging, and distribution that now delivered art to the masses--that made every reader a virtual writer, every viewer a potential auteur, and every audiophile a nascent composer--threatened, in Greenberg's reading, all semblance of hierarchy, distinction, and taste without which it was impossible to salvage canonicity. [...]he regarded the democratization of cultural expression as a volatile formula for social unrest: "Everyman, from the Tammany alderman to the Austrian house-painter," Greenberg warned, "finds that he is entitled to his opinion. .