From some quadrants -- meaning Aaina -- there has been pressure for a more traditional museum-style field trip. Well, here it is:
This coming Friday, immediately after my lecture on post-modernism, we are off to the LA County Museum to spend the afternoon (after we have lunch of course) at the Magritte exhibit:
"Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images is the first major exhibition to explore the impact of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's (1898-1967) work on U.S. and European artists of the post-war generation. Featuring sixty-eight paintings and drawings by Magritte, including many international loans of his signature works, and sixty-eight works in diverse media by thirty-one contemporary artists such as Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, the exhibition examines the different and sometimes unconscious ways that pop, conceptual, and post-modern sensibilities have referenced Magritte's ideas and imagery. In addition, the exhibition installation is specially designed by conceptual artist John Baldessari and includes an inventive presentation that is playful and humorous, yet provides a deep visual understanding of Magritte's work. Magritte and Contemporary Art."
To read more about the exhibit, click here. For LA Weekly's review of the exhibit, click. To read more about Magritte, go here.
* Before someone feels the need to point it out -- Magritte himself is not post-modern, but his work is used in a post-modern sense and I'd argue that the exhibit itself is PM.
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