Barbara Rose ( born Barbara Rose , born 1938 ) is an American art historian and art critic. Studied at Smith College, Barnard College, and Columbia University . In 1961-1969 she was married to the artist Frank Stella . In 1965, she published the famous article "ABC Art" ( Eng. ABC Art ), which contained an analysis of the art of minimal art .
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ABC Art
The article by Barbara Rose, “ABC Art,” was published in the journal Art in America in October 1965 and was devoted to the analysis of the direction, now known as minimal art, but at that time it had no name. The name “ABC art” proposed in Rose’s work is almost never used now.
In her article, Rose cites the work of Casimir Malevich and Marcel Duchamp as the sources of minimal art, as well as the choreography of Merce Cunningham , art criticism of Clement Greenberg , Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy and novels by Alain Rob-Grieux .
Considering the historical roots of the new art, Rose distinguishes between “the search for the transcendental , universal, absolute ” by Malevich and “the complete denial of the existence of absolute values” by Duchamp.
She groups artists of the 1960s according to their proximity to Malevich or Duchamp. She relates to close Malevich Walter Derby Bannard, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Sox , Robert Huot, Lyman Kipp, Richard Tuttle , Jan Evans, Ronald Bladen , Ann Trui (Anne Truitt). To close Duchamp - Richard Artschwager and Andy Warhol . At the same time, representatives of the “ABC art” - Robert Morris , Donald Judd , Carl Andre and Dan Flavin - occupy an intermediate position in relation to these two trends.
Rose believes that minimal art is both transcendental and negative:
The art that I spoke of is obviously the negative art of denial and renunciation. Such prolonged asceticism is usually characteristic of meditators or mystics ... Like mystics, these artists in their works deny ego and individuality in an attempt to awaken the semi-hypnotic state of the pure unconscious.
Original textThe art I have been talking about is obviously a negative art of denial and renunciation. Such protracted asceticism is normally the activity of contemplatives or mystics ... Like the mystic, in their work these artists deny the ego and the individual personality, seeking to evoke, it would seem, the semihypnotic state of blank unconsciousness.
The author also contrasts minimal art with pop art :
... While pop art reflects our environment, it is possible that the art I describe is an antidote to it, even if it is not so easy to swallow.
Original text... if Pop Art is the reflection of our environment, perhaps the art I have been describing is its antidote, even if it is a hard one to swallow.
See also
- minimal art
Bibliography
- ABC Art, Art in America, October 1965
- American Art Since 1900, 1967
- Abstract Illusionism, Artforum , October 1967, pp. 33–37.
- Published in Russian
- American painting, twentieth century: Translated from French / Barbara Rose, Geneva: Skira; Paris: Bookking international, cop. 1995.- 175 pp. Ill. - ISBN 2-87714-308-2 .