Installation view of "Masterpieces", photo by Daniel Hanoch

“Missing the Aura: Instances of Appropriation and Quotation in Modern and Contemporary Art”

A catalogue essay for the exhibition “Masterpieces”, curated by Avi Lubin at Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. This essay is based on my master’s thesis, titled “Quoting in American Pop Painting as a Postmodern Feature Reflecting a Historicist Attitude towards the Tradition of Western Culture,” submitted in 1990 to Prof. Mordechai Omer, the Tel Aviv University.

 

While exploring the meaning of aura formation and the paradox inherent in it, this essay encapsulates a short history of appropriation, quotation and reenactment manifestations that differ from strategies of influence or gesture, in alignment with the difference between the essence of postmodernism and the principles of modernism.

“Missing the Aura: Instances of Appropriation and Quotation in Modern and Contemporary Art”

A catalogue essay for the exhibition “Masterpieces”, curated by Avi Lubin at Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod. This essay is based on my master’s thesis, titled “Quoting in American Pop Painting as a Postmodern Feature Reflecting a Historicist Attitude towards the Tradition of Western Culture,” submitted in 1990 to Prof. Mordechai Omer, the Tel Aviv University.

 

While exploring the meaning of aura formation and the paradox inherent in it, this essay encapsulates a short history of appropriation, quotation and reenactment manifestations that differ from strategies of influence or gesture, in alignment with the difference between the essence of postmodernism and the principles of modernism.

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Installation view of "Masterpieces", photo by Daniel Hanoch