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Gregory Battcock
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“What is video art? How does it differ from commercial television? Is video art linked to such traditional art forms as painting and sculpture? Is it a totally new phenomenon?”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory Battcock. New Artists’ Video, an anthology, (1978) p. xiii. Introduction:
“Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory Battcock early 1970s, as quoted in: "Art history course 2013-14," at uchicago.edu, Department of Art History, 18 Feb. 2014.
“(Performance) art is, perhaps, the first art phenomenon to clearly demonstrate that modern art has become antiquated. Modern art is based upon a single assumption. That the artwork is only what it is.It is not a picture or a metaphor for something else. It is, say, a photograph, first and only. Or, perhaps, it is a painting, first and only. This assumption still looms above us all. We automatically accept it. We fall back upon it whenever we have a problem in criticizing, accepting, or understanding a work of art.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1984, p. 5
“Before man was aware of art he was aware of himself. Awareness of the person is, then, the first art. In performance art the figure of the artist is the tool for the art. It is the art.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Warhol's art can both subvert (up to a point) formal art and, at the same time, offer socially provocative documents to the ordinary, white, middle-class citizen. Blacks and the poor do not like Warhol's art or movies. Documents that are mainly intended as deliberate references to a predominant white culture cannot incite the imaginations of those who don't give a fuck for that culture in the first place, even if they did understand what it was all about. This inability of Warhol to reach blacks and the poor represents the weakest aspect of his art. Warhol's art implies a certain disgust on the part of the artist for culture — a disgust he shares in common with New Left revolutionaries and progressive activist artists and critics. His latest decision, to stop painting altogether, is a deliberate step in the direction away from culture itself. It is also an inevitable step, as the very notion of art works that possess a quality as items to be traded upon the New York art exchange is incompatible with the socialisation of art. Modern culture is a repressive, police agency. The police function of modern culture has been recognized by Warhol. His paintings of electric chairs, police attacks, most-wanted men, and car crashes all seem to reflect in art the reality of an official culture of repression rather than of life.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory Battcock, in: Art and Artists, Vol. 5 (1970), p. 13; Republished in Gregory Battcock. The new art: a critical anthology, (1973) p. 27