Randomness in the Arts 2
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| + | From Chance Aesthetics by Meredith Malone. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum 2009. | ||
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| + | Used to eliminate personal bias, to circumvent taste | ||
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| + | In relation to determinism, it's 'against order', subverts rational ideals | ||
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| + | Jean (Hans) Arp | ||
| + | Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged according to the Laws of Chance), 1916-17 | ||
| + | Objects Arranged According to the Law of Chance, 1930 | ||
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| + | Arp associated individual authorship with authoritarianism | ||
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| + | 'creative potential' of chance, balanced with control | ||
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| + | "undermine traditional ideas of aethetic judgement", catalog writer BB on Duchamp | ||
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| + | "programatic indeterminacy" | ||
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