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This document provides the transcript of a lecture given by Dr. Lori Kent on the topic of where art comes from from an artist's perspective. It discusses various influences on art such as memory, imagination, experience, representation, passion, and re-presentation. It provides examples of artworks from different time periods and contexts, including the Holocaust and natural disasters, to illustrate how artists draw from collective and personal memories and experiences to create work that represents and comments on the world around them.
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- 1. The Artist, CollectiveMemory, and Crisis of the Natural and Unnatural Kind January 27, 2010 A Lecture to Jagalonian University Cultural Studies Program, Class in Visuality Dr. Lori Kent Fulbright Fellow, Academy of Fine Arts Leadbelly (1930s) “Ox Drivin’ Blues” from the album “King of the 12-String Guitar”
- 2. From an artist’spoint of view…. Where does art come from?
- 3. Where does artcome from? memory?Imagination? experience? Representation? Passion? re-presentation ? ???
- 4. Where does artcome from? memory?Imagination? experience? Representation? Passion? re-presentation ? ???
- 5. Johannes Vermeer, WomanHolding a Balance, c. 1664
- 6. Where does artcome from? memory?Imagination? experience? Representation? Passion? re-presentation ? ???
- 7. Edgar Degas, BalletRehearsal on Stage, c. 1874,
- 8. Where does artcome from? memory?Imagination? experience? Representation? Passion? re-presentation ? ???
- 9. Matthew Barney, FilmStill from the Cremaster Series, c. 1992
- 10. Hieronymus Bosch ,The Last Judgment, c. 1482
- 11. “All that youcan imagine, you already know” - Sir Stephen Spender
- 12. Where does artcome from? memory? Imagination? experience? Representation? Passion? re-presentation ? ???
- 13. Francisco de Goya’sDisastersof War Series The National Museum, Krakow 1807-14 Peninsula War Created in 1812-14 Published in 1863
- 14. Goya With Reasonor Without
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- 16. Goya They DoNot Want To
- 17. Goya And Thereis No Remedy
- 18. Goya What MoreCan Be Done
- 19. Goya Bury Themand Be Silent
- 20. HURRICANE KATRINA August29, 2005
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- 26. Café DuMonde atlate night
- 27. Lucky Dogs onBourbon Street
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- 29. 80% of theCity flooded
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- 37. 0% Malcolm McClay Malcolm McClayLinoCut Print
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- 53. Floodwall by JanaNapoli
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- 55. http://www.floodwall.org What will comeout of Haiti?
- 56. Children’s Art afterthe 2005 Indonesian Tsunami
- 57. This painting wasdrawn by a child from a town close to the epicenter, where 8,200 people drowned in 20 minutes
- 58. They also showthe effect on property – and how some people survived the huge wave.
- 59. Sri Lanka wasa holiday paradise for holidaymakers before the tsunami..
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- 64. The Holocaust Camp Art Survivor Memory-Based Art Nazi Propaganda Art “Degenerate” Art
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- 74. Town Panorama (1994)Opatow Poland or “Apt” in Yiddish
- 75. Mother Giving Birthto My Brother Vadye(1994)
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- 78. Jadwiga Washing Laundry(1992)
- 79. Mother Blessing theSabbath Candles (1995)
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- 85. The Kleptomaniac Slippinga Fish Down Her Bosom (1995)
- 86. New Bermedresh: PlayingSoccer (1992)
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- 88. The Boy inthe White Pajamas (1992)
- 91. “We shall discoverand encourage the artists who are able to impress upon the State of the German people the cultural stamp of the Germanic race . . . in their origin and in the picture which they present they are the expressions of the soul and the ideals of the community." (Hitler, Party Day speech, 1935)
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- 94. Adolph Wissel (1939)Family from Kahlenberg
- 95. Ernst Leiberman (1939)By the Water
- 96. Marc Chagall (1915)The Kiss
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- 98. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK Background Prior toWorld War II, Siwek studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts and worked for the Kraków Railway Headquarters. Arrest and Deportation to Auschwitz He was arrested for resistance on January 14, 1940 and sent to Montelupic prison. October 8, 1940, Siwek was deported to Auschwitz, where he was assigned prisoner number 5826. Art Produced at Auschwitz He was initially assigned to hard labor in the stone quarries and became emaciated and ill. Siwek was then sent to the prisoner infirmary, where fellow artist and prisoner Leon Turalski helped secure him an easier labor assignment with the painters’ labor detail. May 1941 through September 1943, Siwek produced calligraphy, portraits, landscape paintings, and hunting scenes for the SS. In addition to portraits of the SS families, he did portraits, in secret, of over 2000 prisoners.
- 99. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK Interrogationin Cell Block 11
- 100. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK AGroup of New Arrivals
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- 102. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK SummaryCourt Marshall
- 103. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK Selectionat Apel [Roll Call]
- 104. WŁADYSŁAW SIWEK Arrivalof Soviet POWs
- 105. JaninaTollikA Street inthe Women’s Camp
- 106. JerzyPotrzebowski Entrance tothe Krankenbau (Hospital)
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- 108. “NIGHT…. A brickhas come loose from the low wall separating out cell from the next where other larvae sleep, moan, and dream under the blankets that cover them – these are shrouds covering them for they are dead., today, tomorrow what does it matter,… We feel that we teeter on the edge of a dark pit, a bottomless void – it is the hole of the night where we struggle furiously, struggle against another nightmare, that of our real death.”* MieczyslawKoscielniak, from the series: "A Day in the Life of a Woman Prisoner"
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- 111. You don’t haveto be an artist to draw. Create a small scene from your life, at any age, that is memorable. Use imagery only, no text. Unknown Artist (1944) Portrait of Albert Frecke
Editor's Notes
- #14 The Peninsular War was probably the worst mistake Napoleon Bonaparte made during his lengthy reign over France - the attempted subjugation of Portugal in a bid to tighten his trade blockade of Britain.To get at Portugal, Bonaparte had to trick his ally Spain into allowing a French army under General Jean-Andoche Junot to move through its territory.
- #21 Katrina was a strong cat 4 at 140 MPH
- #66 Viewing the terrain of Birkenau today, it is difficult to visualize the conditions under which the prisoners were forced to work during the construction of the camp in 1941/2. A penal company had been formed for the purpose of digging an enormous ditch in Birkenau, called Konigsgraben (Kings Ditch), to collect the ground waters and to drain the water into the Vistula. The prisoners detailed for the penal company were to be killed afterwards, but before they met their death they were to be ruthlessly exploited for labor.
- #94 I included Arno Breker in this archive first because he was in a certain sense both the best and the worst of the Nazi artists. His technique was excellent, and his choice of subject, poses, theme, and so on were outstanding, but on the other hand, Breker was therefore much more directly and effectively a supporter of the Nazi cause. Had his sculpture been ugly, ambiguous in meaning, poorly-executed, or less directly associated with Nazi militarism, the negative effects on the world of his sculpture would have been considerably lessened. In a certain sense, Breker uses his numerous "naked men with swords" to unite the notions of health, strength, competition, collective action and willingness to sacrifice the self for the common good seen in many other Nazi works with explicit glorification of militarism.
- #95 Nazi Folk Art". The themes running through such works (and there were a LOT of them) are the virtues of the simple, natural life, living close to the land, and using muscular power to turn the land into a healthy living. This is a theme I find often portrayed in the more recent primitivist art of the environmentalist movement except that it tends to promote a more etherial or surreal notion of what "union with the soil" and "the simple life" might entail. More likely than not because rural Germans had some experience with "the simple life"
- #97 Marc Chagall was born in Russia in 1887. His life was deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and religion.
- #108 In Birkenau latrines were cleaned by hand, another strategy of dehumanization. Author Terrence Des Pres described it as an "excremental assault" and wrote: "How much self-esteem can one maintain, how readily can one respond to the needs of another, if both stink, if both are caked with mud and feces?" [Terrence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps (Pocket Books: New York, 1976) p. 66.]
- #109 http://remember.org/then-and-now/tn16.html* Charlotte Delbo, Night (from Auschwitz and After: None of Us Will Return), (1995) Yale University Press, p56. **Charlotte Delbo, Morning (from Auschwitz and After: None of Us Will Return), (1995) Yale University Press, p62.
- #111 Moshe Rynecki was a painter whose work often directed attention to the persecution of the Jews. He lived in the Warsaw ghetto and died at Majdanek.