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Exhibiting Historical Art: Out of the Vault: Stories of People and ThingsMain MenuWorld MapClick pins to learn more about the object that originated thereTimelinePre-Columbian Gold Headband800 A.D. - 1500 A.D.Gold Eagle PendantsSepik River Headrest20th centuryStatue of Saint Barbara17th century France, polychromed wood, artist unknownCabinet door from the Imperial Palace of Beijing with Imperial DragonChen Youzhang, 1755Bronze LampHead of John the BaptistLauren Linquest, '19Ida Rubenstein, 1909 Sculpture by Jo DavidsonCassone ChestWater-Carrier Vase with Bamboo Pattern and BambooLenore Vanderkooi, 1996Lotus Flowers in a Wood VaseRevolutions Per Minute: The Art RecordOpening page
These artists structure their work in the more traditional format of a song, using the standard arrangement of a refrain and verses to discuss their themes. -Les Levine, Would Not Say No to Some Help -Hannah Wilke, Stand Up -Thomas Shannon, Smashing Beauty
Memoirs/Discussions
Rather than using music, these artists record discussions, commentary, and even their own musings on their tracks. This format further stretches the conventional definition of art, by using recordings of people talking in an exhibit. -SITE, Comments on SITE -Joseph Beuys, Excerpt from Cooper Union Dialogue -Conrad Atkinson, The Louis XIV Deterrent -Todd Siler, Think Twice -R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path -Edwin Schlossberg, Vibrations/Metaphors -Chris Burden, The Atomic Alphabet -Eleanor Antin, Antinova Remembers -Margaret Harrison, First Lines -Komar and Melamid, Russian language lesson -Helen Mayer Harrison/Newton Harrison, Extract from the Second Lagoon: A Memoriam to John Isaacs
Experimenting with technology/methods of sound recording/phonetics
In keeping with a popular theme of the 1980s, these artists use various recording technologies to explore their themes and often phonetics as well. Many use unconventional items to make music, such as David Smyth's typewriters, while others use new technology to manipulate recorded sound, such as Kowalski and Burroughs. -Terry Fox, Internal Sound -Douglas Davis, How to Make Love a Sound -Kowalski and Burroughs, You only call the old doctor once -David Smyth, Typewriter in D -Ida Applebroog, Really, Is that a Fact? -Jud Fine, Polynesian/Polyhedron -Vincenzo Agnetti, Pieces of Sound
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