The Black Box in the White Cube: Lyotard’s Les Immatériaux as Machinic Theater
The 1960s and 1970s mark the first time contemporary art opposed modernist art. Formalist strategies that privileged the art object were displaced by discursive, administrative and conceptual approaches that emphasized relationships, and connoisseurship gave way to the demands of the growing research-industrial complex. The concept of creativity partially shifted from a traditional craft function to [...]
Tearing Real Images from Clichés: Edward Burtynsky’s Industrial Landscapes
Such a voyage does not necessarily imply great movements in extension; it becomes immobile, in a room and on a body without organs—an intensive voyage that undoes all the lands for the benefit of the one it is creating. (Deleuze and Guattari 1983: 319) Edward Burtynsky’s manufactured landscapes – large-format, photographic compositions of industrially-transformed [...]
