12. E.V. Day,
Flesh for Fantasy
1999, 4 blowup lovedolls and
stainless steel surgical wire
The pink vinyl flesh of two girls
and two boys is shredded into
fragments of varying degrees of
recognition and strewn through
out a room into what I hope will
be an explosive orgy. The
fragments are hung with
stainless steel steel surgical
wire, normally used for stitching
human bones. The wires are
connected to turn buckles in a
heart shaped configuration in
the floor, and shoot out
chaotically to the ceiling. "Flesh
for Fantasy" is situated in a
room with four entrances that
allows the viewer to pass
through and around the
installation from all directions.
13. key points
• moving past realist modes of representation (post-
photographic)
• art and commerce become completely enmeshed
• constant cross-pollination between elite and popular
culture
• development of self-reflective capacity
• critical perspectives on the treatment of women and non-
whites in previous art
• awareness of the power of representation to shape belief
20. Eva HESSE
Ringaround Arosie
1965
Pencil, acetone, varnish,
enamel paint, ink and cloth-
covered electrical wire on
papier-mâché and masonite
26 3/8 x 16 1/2 x 4 ½ inches
22. One cannot validly be for or against any particular body of art in
toto. One can only be for good or superior art as against bad or
inferior art. One is not for Chinese, or Western, or representational
art as a whole, but only for what is good in it. Experience itself—
and experience is the only court of appeal in art—has shown that
there is both good and bad in abstract art. And it has also revealed
that the good in one kind of art is always, at bottom, more like the
good in all other kinds of art than it is like the bad in its own kind.
Underneath all apparent differences, a good Mondrian or a good
Pollock has more in common with a good Vermeer than a bad Dali
has. A bad Dali has far more in common, not only with a bad
Maxfield Parrish, but with a bad abstract painting.