Jasper Johns: Catenery (Jacob’s Ladder)/Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism?

Synopsis: Two programmes combined on one tape/disc.

JASPER JOHNS - Professor Fred Orton looks at ‘Flag’ (1954-1955), the object that established Jasper Johns as one of the most important contemporary artists, and ends by looking at one of his most recent ‘Catenery’ (Jacob’s Ladder) 1999. Professor Orton considers the distinction that’s all too often overlooked between the ‘art object’ and the ‘work of art’, and makes a distinction between what he calls the ‘everyday self’ and the ‘extraordinary self’.

SMITHSON AND SERRA; BEYOND MODERNISM? - Shows works by Robert Smithson and Richard Serra, sculptors who believe that sculpture should have a dialogue with its environment (site-specific). Two sculptures of Richard Serra are shown in an urban environment - ‘Fulcrum’ in the Broadgate development at Liverpool Street in London and ‘Tilted Arc’ in New York (the latter has since been destroyed) . One of these, ‘Spin Out, a Tribute to Robert Smithson’, is in a rural site at the Kroller-Muller museum in Holland.
Series: Art of the Twentieth Century, Course Aa318
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 2004
Availability: Out of distribution
Notes: Combined on one tape with SMITHSON AND SERRA: BEYOND MODERNISM?
Subjects: Art
Keywords: art - modern art; art criticism; Johns, Jasper; sculpture; Serra, Richard; Smithson, Robert

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