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Title
Untitled
,
detail
.
Creator
Buren, Daniel (French conceptual artist and photographer, born 1938)
Date
1968
Cultural Context
French
European
Western European
Style/Period
Conceptual
Theme
Performance art
Body art
Conceptual art
Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
Signboards
Motifs
Stripes
Patterns (design elements)
Geometric patterns
Men (male humans)
Back views
Costume (mode of fashion)
Suits (main garments)
Automobiles
Sedans
Passenger vehicles
Vehicles (transportation)
Sidewalks
Trees
Plants (vegetation)
Vegetation
Eye-level views
Detail views
Subject
Performance art
Signs (Notices)
Stripes
Patterns (Design elements)
Men
Backs (Anatomy)
Clothing & dress
Suits (Clothing)
Walking
Automobiles
Vehicles
Sidewalks
Trees
Plants
Details
Description
"This
is
an
early
example
of
Buren's
use
of
stripe
motifs
in a
public
context
. He has
continued
the
practice
to the
present
. For
instance
, in
1997
in
Munster
,
Germany
, his
contribution
to a
festival
of
site-specific
sculpture
consisted
of
lines
of
red-and-white-striped
triangular
'flags'
strung
across
the
main
streets
of the
town
above
the
heads
of
pedestrians
. The
flags
thus
appeared
to
function
as
civic
decoration
.
Whether
this had the
political
bite
of the
earlier
work
shown
in this
photograph
is
questionable.
"
(Caption
,
p.162)
; "A
curious
photograph
shows
'sandwichmen'
walking
through
the
streets
of
Paris
. They are
bearing
signboards
displaying
the
stripe
motifs
of the
French
artist
Daniel
Buren
. The
image
suggests
directionless
protest
.
Modernist
abstraction
had
reached
an
impasse
in the
mid-1960s
and
Buren
was
one
of
many
artists
who
felt
that the
entire
'framing'
or
institutional
conditions
for
avant-garde
art
needed
to be
redefined
.
Buren's
seemingly
innocuous
'abstractions'
were
therefore
part
of a
strategy
.
Inserted
in
various
environments
, the
stripes
would
assert
that, for
all
its
vaunted
aesthetic
autonomy
,
Modernist
art
is
defined
by
context
.
Paintings
,
especially
Modernist
ones
,
normally
rely
on the
museum
, or
gallery
, for their
'visibility'
.
Out
on the
streets
of
Paris
such
objects
become
vulnerable
,
invisible
even
. Or
so
Buren
,
envisaging
the
'end
of
painting'
,
hoped
.
[…]
The
sandwichmen's
impotent
militancy
was
doubly
ironic
. The
year
was
1968
,
now
fabled
as a
time
of
political
dissent
across
Europe
and
America
.
Over
the
next
few
years
artistic
tendencies
such
as
Arte
Povera
,
Land
Art
,
Conceptualism
, and
Performance
Art
interrogated
not
just
aesthetic
but
social
and
cultural
preconceptions.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.161)
Location Depicted
Paris (France)
France
Work Type
Performance art
Body art
Conceptual art
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.[160], detail of fig.82)
Rights
© Daniel Buren, ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-36.jpg
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