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Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture
Issue 2 (2008)
TRANSCENDENTAL POP
Issue 2 of Reading Room explores a paradox within contemporary
art and culture's absorption of Pop. While artists continue to
utilise Pop's method, 'Transcendental Pop' identifies a current
shift in the infamous fascination with the everyday. Arguably, it is
Warhol's defence of surface, flatness and blankness, that has been
absorbed and referenced by subsequent generations of artists. These
characteristic qualities have become embedded in art's relationship
to the everyday - the 'real'. In part, this narrow absorption of
Pop's surface has allowed a paradox to occur when artists reinvest
surface with 'depth', the unknown and unquantifiable. We invite an
exploration of this apparent contradiction, something which has the
potential to shift the art / life nexus as we know it.
CONTENTS
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Foreword
Catherine Hammond |
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Introduction
Natasha Conland |
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Eric Baudelaire's
Sugar Water, the Deleuzean Event, and the Dispersion of Spectatorial Labour
Tan
Lin |
| .28 |
Andy Warhol and the
"Religious" Dimension of Contemporary Art
Rex
Butler |
| .46 |
The Enigmatic
Playground: Zidane and Deep Play
Natasha Conland |
| .64 |
The Surface No Longer Holds: Affect, Powerlessness and Obscene
Fluctuations of Meaning in New Occult Art
Lars
Bang Larsen |
| .81 |
Darren Sylvester: In Step with the Real World
Daniel
Palmer |
| .88 |
Slow Dance: Douglas
Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho
Morgan
Thomas |
| .106 |
Break on Through to
This Side: David Hatcher's Dialectics
David
Craig |
| .138 |
The Burdens of
Imaging: Kamrooz Aram's Painted Elsewhere
Aram
Moshayedi |
ARCHIVE
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My Only Child: Picture of Warhol
Gavin
Hipkins |
| .170 |
Archives Become Him:
The Giovanni Intra Archive
Robert
Leonard |
| .186 |
Graphic Works by
Edward Ruscha at Auckland City Art Gallery
Ron
Brownson |
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Staff Research,
Presentations and Publications: 2007 |
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Contributors |
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