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- Summary of The Pictures Generation
- Key Ideas & Accomplishments
- Beginnings of The Pictures Generation
- The Pictures Generation: Concepts, Styles, and Trends
- Later Developments - After The Pictures Generation
The Pictures Generation was a loose affiliation of artists, influenced by Conceptual and Pop Art, who utilized appropriation and montage to reveal the constructed nature of images. Experimenting with a variety of media, including photography and film, their works exposed cultural tropes and stereotypes in popular imagery. By reworking well-known im...
Influenced by the ubiquity of advertising and the highly saturated image culture of the United States, Pictures Generation artists produced work that itself often resembles advertising. In thus cha...Though many artists in the group were trained formally in traditional disciplines such as painting and sculpture, they elected to utilize their skills in unorthodox ways - re-examining composition,...Like photography, video is the perfect medium through which to explore the blurry boundaries between originals and reproductions. The advent of the portable video camera along with the first exampl...Members of Pictures Generation were given impetus by Roland Barthes’smost important essay, "The Death of the Author" (1967). The Frenchman did more than any other to initiate the age of Poststructu...Reconsidering Photography and Film
The artists who would be involved in the Pictures Generation grew up in the 1960s when consumerism and mass media began to have a large impact on society. They were the first generation of artists raised with television. In the 1970s and 1980s conceptual art ideas were being circulated through art professors who began to incorporate then-unorthodox and nontraditional media into their curricula. Many artists abandoned conventional educational tracks in painting and sculpture, recognizing the i...
East Coast
Several of the Pictures Generation artists studied at Buffalo State College, including Robert Longo, Charles Clough, and Cindy Sherman. Professors like photographer Barbara Jo Revelle introduced them to Conceptual art and students were encouraged to be independent-minded and to experiment. While still undergraduates, the aforementioned artists founded Hallwalls in 1974 as an alternative art space in downtown Buffalo where their studios were located. The space was intended to show cutting edge...
West Coast
Developments in postmodern art practice were brewing on the west coast, as well. The photo-conceptualist John Baldessari began teaching a visual arts program at CalArts in 1970, the same year he burned all of his previous paintings. Though initially hired as a painter, Baldessari taught a class titled "Post Studio," broadening artistic understanding of studio practice. In addition to giving students access to contemporary art from America and Europe, Baldessari introduced film, video, photogr...
Appropriation
Building on the work of Neo-Dadaand Pop artists, artists of the Pictures Generation appropriated existing images and re-contextualized them to undermine their original intent. Whereas Pop playfully poked at and surveyed design-conscious image production, Pictures artists more typically appropriated images to question and criticize the inherent power structures in mass-circulated imagery. Dara Birnbaum's video work, for example, manipulated scenes from television to uncover stereotypes in the...
Poststructuralism
The famous French essayist, Roland Barthes, affected something of a revolution in cultural theory with the publication of his 1967 essay "The Death of the Author". He was able to "subvert the structures of language" – hence "post"-structuralism - by proclaiming the author's death. Despite its many gray areas and flaws (the likes of Sherman, Kruger, Prince and Levine attest to the fact that the author clearly did not "die", neither metaphorically nor physically), the idea that there was no wro...
Authorship and the Viewer
Tied closely to the use of appropriation, the work of Pictures Generation artists questioned traditional notions of authorship. Sherrie Levine's work, for example, in appropriating the photographs of other artists, questions ideas of originality. Many Pictures Generation works also rely on the viewer to produce their meanings, further eroding the conventional significance of the artist as creator. Barbara Kruger's works often include the pronouns "I" or "you" that directly address the viewer,...
The original five artists included in Crimp's 1977 "Pictures" exhibition were never a formal group and did not exhibit together again. However, Crimp's 1979 essay in Octobergave prominence to the themes and methods of their work, leading to numerous exhibits throughout the 1980s that showcased a revolving array of artists such as Sherrie Levine, Ba...
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The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 was an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City that ran from April 29 – August 2, 2009. [1] The exhibition took its name from Pictures, a 1977 five person group show organized by art historian and critic Douglas Crimp (1944–2019) at New York City's Artists Space gallery. [2]
