Notes for dissertation

Glossary words: “I will begin with a glossary, a literary section usually reserved outside the text in some sort of appendix or ending section …” What do these words mean to me when I use them, what am I implying when I use them, definitions needed. Everyday = repetition, consumption, time, reproduction, late-capitalism, hyper-time, i.e. time is its primary issue (ex: how long it takes to commute, shortening the commute time if possible) Space = not time, social and physical spaces, where things occur, ideological (?) Museum/gallery = own rules, white walls (at least typically), coded, ISA, although there is no one ideal gallery but rather a multiplicity "out of space" = that which is from a certain space yet existing in another space, but this is not to say that it is alien in that space forever, spatial gestures (see O'Doherty) Plane of consistency = Deleuze, chaos within space, surface smooth and even due to its infinite connections Contradiction/rupture = Foucault, discontinuity, breaking reproduction (example: a protest) Artist case studies: Martha Rosler, Garage Sale (1973); Jannis Kounellis, Dodici Cavalli Livi (1969); Arman, Le plein (1960); perhaps need one more case study Support examples (most are NOT 1960-70): Marcel Duchamp, Fountain; Simon Patterson, The Great Bear; Manet, Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass; Joseph Beuys, Economic Values; Tracey Emin, My Bed; Dieter Roth; Andy Warhol; Banksy; Maurizio Cattelan, The Ballad of Trotsky; Marcel Broodthaers, A Winter Garden; Richard Long Revised theory list: Henri Lefebvre, Brian O'Doherty, Louis Althusser, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze/ Felix Guattri, Michel Foucault

More self-questions: Dead fish still lifes, horse paintings, Arte Povera, outside/inside spaces mentally or conceptually? Musical rhythm (Lefebvre quote)? Realist school or Dutch genre paintings? Where is this project going though? The revenge of the Philistines? Possible thesis statement: This theoritically informed art historical discussion (dissertation) -- focusing primarily on Euro-American art from the 1960s to early 70s -- will concern ideas of spatial relationships, inside/outside, art gallery ideologies, and the "out of place," through a reading of everyday life of consumption/reproduction ruptures. The overall project is leading towards an understanding of how the everyday in (geopolitically) Western late-capitalism was gestured by artists during those decades, to perhaps shine new light onto current issues of conceptual art of, for example, during the 1990s. My intention is to explore the how and why of the collapse of space -- and consequently the infinite division of space parallel to the division of labor in post-captialism (recall Lefebvre) -- and to assert that ...

Refined topics/issues: Time, transportation, and space; interaction with everyday object/animals differently then in a gallery setting; the everyday is unavoidable, it occurs biologically (i.e. food, waste, etc), and through mechanical/animal transport; when discussing the everyday, social/economic class must be also discussed; not illusionary, "real" objects, post-medium