Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism

By Theodore A. Harris

Thesent r: Conscientious Objector to Formalism By Theodore A. Harris Thesent r: Conscientious Objector to Formalism is a series of minimal, image and quotation based works that uses poetry to confront mainstream art criticism, art history, to look beneath the surface politics of aesthetics and formalism in a presentation of art that is not self-referential or to put a Black face on the art history of imperialism.Formalism functions as the cosmetics of art criticism like aluminum siding on a slumlord's property. It is an attempt to disguise what is crumbling beneath the surface politics of its proselytizing church bells, ringing, in the mega church / museums and galleries where there are more Black bodies guarding the white cube then exhibiting in it.What marginalized artist know is that canon formation is a battlefield and critical art is the weapon In the crossed out words of Basquiat to repel ghosts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1547027630
• ISBN13: 9781547027637
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"