The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition
and Baudrillard's
The Hyper-realism of Simulation
I either couldn't understand Krauss or I disagreed with what she was trying to say. She says Originality rises out of repetition and recurrence. Citing artists that work closely with the grid as either a starting point, or a general aesthetic likeness with the grid, Krauss tries to show how originality and repetition work together. What I couldn't see was how this idea is very different from the notion that Avant-Garde is original by going against tradition. Isn't the development of tradition the product of repetition and avant-garde attempts a kind of mutation, mirror, or evolution of that repeated past?
Baudrillard - that there's a new, Hyper-reality created by the simulated reality by the use of images and digitized reality. He says a product of this phenomena is that whereas allegorical objects used to exist in specific signs, they are now everywhere to be recognized only with the aid of a different perspective. What I like from his paragraphs are, "An air of nondeliberate parody clings to everything." He says art "entered a phase of its own indefinite reproduction," but I'm not entirely sure how to visualize this idea. I wish more of these writers gave more concrete examples. In all his talk about represented reality, he does not mention more than one artist and medium. There is no mention of any kind of relationship between people, photography, television, advertisement, billboards, magazines, or radio ads. I wish he gave a visual representation of this whirligig of his. Because I was kind of lost in the whirligig of his abstract ideas. Well, I'll give it a shot.
(the definition of real he gives is "that for which it is possible to provide an equivalent representation." Still trying to wrap my mind around this)
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