Object art

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Rauschenberg : Riding Bikes, object art, 1998

The object art is from the assemblage further developed especially since the late 1950s art form that one or more found objects - declared a work of art - partly processed or alienated. The origins of this form of expression lie in the collages of Cubism and Dadaism as well as in Marcel Duchamp's readymades . An example of object art is the bull's skull (1942) by Pablo Picasso .

In the 1960s, object art took on monumental forms and, based on the Dadaist Merz buildings by Kurt Schwitters, developed into accessible environments and architectural structures with an almost fluid transition to Land Art by the end of the 20th century . A more recent example is the work last exit (2007) by Kurt Fleckenstein : oversized curved, black oiled guardrails wind through the exhibition space and fill it up, as it were. The visitor experiences the dynamism and physicality by having to step through the object.

literature

  • Mariella de Battisti, Marisa Melis (ed.), Edward Lucie-Smith, Lara Vinca Masini (authors): The modern art. Painting - photography - graphics - object art. Translator: Annemarie Seling. Cormoran, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-932100-05-0 .
  • Helmut Krudewig: Painting and Object Art. Schumacher, Herzogenrat 2005, ISBN 3-00-016352-2 .
  • Willy Rotzler: Object Art. From Duchamp to the present, Cologne 1975.

Web links

Commons : Object Art  - collection of images, videos and audio files