Breaking the box : the alternative, libertarian exhibition spaces created by Rothko & Judd
| dc.contributor.author | Webb, Stephanie Anne | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Antliff, Allan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-01T22:52:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-10-01T22:52:21Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2008 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-10-01T22:52:21Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Dept. of History in Art | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | An exhibition space is neither neutral nor universal and meaning is continually constructed within these mediated spaces. My thesis is an examination of two instances where artists have broken outside the box and carefully crafted unique exhibition spaces within which an intentional dialogue between art works and viewer, art works and space, content and context is established. It considers two twentieth century artists from the United States of America, Mark Rothko and Donald Judd, both of whom rethought and ultimately rejected the mediating constraints prevalent in the conventional exhibition spaces of their time. Seeking to install their work on a permanent basis outside these preexisting, traditional spaces, the alternatives they created -- the Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas and The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, respectively -- are predicated, I argue, upon their anarchism and thus the anarchist paradigms of individual autonomy, liberty and non-coercion. In light of their politics, I assess how the core tenet of sovereignty not only had implications for Rothko and Judd -- for it fuelled the drive to create these alternative sites -- but that there are also implications for the viewer. More specifically, after an analysis of the sites I reflect upon the consequences for the spectator in terms of the following: the co-relation between anti-authoritarian ‘open’ social systems and the ‘open’ art experience; the value of directly experiencing anti-representational work; intersubjectivity and the multiplicity of meanings; and last, the temporal nature of the embodied viewing experience. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1214 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | rothko | en_US |
| dc.subject | judd | en_US |
| dc.subject | exhibition space | en_US |
| dc.subject | anarchism | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::Art--History | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::Art | en_US |
| dc.title | Breaking the box : the alternative, libertarian exhibition spaces created by Rothko & Judd | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |