"Site-Specfic" born in 1960s? Yeah, like the pyramids or the Parthenon, or even the Paleolithic cave paintings or any of a million other examples. Site specific art has a long pedigree. Whoever said it emerged in the 1960s was probably born around that time. So many people think the world began when they were born.
Why does "artsy' (what other endeavor is so trivialized by creepy abbreviations?) continue to plague us with quotations snatched from context. Amputated quotations are made to play the role of aphorisms -- little gems of truth -- but in reality they only contradict it. Artsy wants to lead the witness, as it were, prompting a befuddled "yes" with these tidbits but I at least want to run away screaming from the mangled text-corpses he presents or imagines. Scary stuff, indeed. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, November 16, 2010 1:43:31 AM Subject: "Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality...its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, ho "Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality...its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work"... http://www.vermontcollege.edu/store/page10.html
