Retracing the Expanded Field Papapetros Spyros Associate Professor Princeton University
Retracing the Expanded Field Papapetros Spyros Associate Professor Princeton University Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art…
Specifikacia Retracing the Expanded Field Papapetros Spyros Associate Professor Princeton University
Retracing the Expanded Field Papapetros Spyros Associate Professor Princeton University
Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. In 1979, reacting against contemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist medium multiplicity, the art historian Rosalind Krauss published an essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible "synthesis of the arts," their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion.
Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were,