ThesentUr: Conscientious Objector To Formalism

Thesent?r: Conscientious Objector to FormalismBy Theodore A. HarrisThesent?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.

• | Author: Theodore a Harris
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 30 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1547027630
• | ISBN-13: 9781547027637