Title: ThesentÌ?r: Conscientious Objector to Formalism
Author: Harris, Theodore A.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 30
Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d
Product Weight: 0.15 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781547027637

Thesent r: Conscientious Objector to Formalism By Theodore A. Harris Thesent r: Conscientious Objector to Formalism is a series of minimal, image and quotation based works that uses poetry to confront mainstream art criticism, art history, to look beneath the surface politics of aesthetics and formalism in a presentation of art that is not self-referential or to put a Black face on the art history of imperialism.Formalism functions as the cosmetics of art criticism like aluminum siding on a slumlord's property. It is an attempt to disguise what is crumbling beneath the surface politics of its proselytizing church bells, ringing, in the mega church / museums and galleries where there are more Black bodies guarding the white cube then exhibiting in it.What marginalized artist know is that canon formation is a battlefield and critical art is the weapon In the crossed out words of Basquiat to repel ghosts.

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