Elevating the Ordinary Narratives on the Everyday Stage

Elevating the Ordinary Narratives on the Everyday Stage 2/3 Mini-Programme 2 Contextual and Critical Studies Andrea Peach

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Situating the Everyday Lecture 1: A Brief History

Damien Hirst Holidays/No Feelings 1989

Sarah Lucas Au Naturel 1994

Garry Knox Bennett Torch light 1996

Peter van der Jagt (Droog) Bottoms Up Doorbell 1994

Édouard Manet A Bar at the Folies Bergère, 1882

Marcel Duchamp The Ready-made Fountain 1917

Pablo Picasso Cubism Still Life with Chair Caning 1912

Pablo Picasso Cubism Introduction of everyday images and objects Concerned with Epistemology Challenged the Viewer Brings together ‘life on street’ and life in studio

Marcel Duchamp Cubism (1887 -1968) Nude Descending a Staircase (No 2) 1912

Marcel Duchamp The Ready-made (1887 -1968) Bicycle Wheel 1913 (1964 replica)

Marcel Duchamp The Ready-made (1887 -1968) … a lovely form has been revealed, freed from its functional purpose, therefore a man clearly has made an aesthetic contribution. Mr Mutt has taken an ordinary object, placed it so its useful significance disappears, and thus has created a new approach to the subject.

Marcel Duchamp The Ready-made (1887 -1968) … Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view created a new thought for that object.

Marcel Duchamp The Ready-made (1887 -1968) a manmade object may appear ‘a very trivial thing and easily understood’… But ‘it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties’ Karl Marx (Das Kapital 1867 -94) Bottle Rack 1914

Man Ray (1890 -1976) The Ready-made Gift 1921

Dada Francis Picabia (1879 -1953) Art is everywhere… except with the dealers of Art, in the temples of Art, like God is everywhere, except in the churches. Francis Picabia - The Cacodylic Eye - 1921

Dada Francis Picabia (1879 -1953) Francis Picabia Portrait of a Young American Girl in the State of Nudity 1915

Surrealism Man Ray (1890 -1976) Man Ray - The Enigma of Isidore Duchasse 1920

Surrealism Meret Oppenheim Meret Oppenhiem Fur Covered Tea Cup, Saucer and Spoon, 1936

Surrealism Salvadore Dali (1904 -1989) Salvador Dali Lobster Telephone, 1936

Sigmund Freud The Uncanny (1856 -1939) Heimlich = Homely Unheimlich = Unhomely The uncanny is not to be found in the exotic, but in the everyday

The Everyday Walter Benjamin (1892 -1940) The revolutionary strength of Dadaism lay in testing art for its authenticity. You made still-lifes out of tickets, spools of cotton, cigarette stubs, and mixed them together with pictorial elements. You put a frame round the whole thing. And in this way you said to the public: look, your picture frame destroys time; the smallest authentic fragment of everyday life says more than painting. Just as a murder’s bloody fingerprint on a page says more than the words printed on it. (1934)