" Displacement is a way of using the world, a way of surreptitiously eroding established geographies. Thus the ready made belongs to no particular domain. It exists between two zones and is anchored in none" pg 148 N. B.
" Viewed through the lens of the reciprocal readymade,every act of appropriation attests to a misuse of the world to a malentendu that has become the very nature of the economy." pg152
I think this is one of the most important aspects of this book. I think that placement/displacement is encoded into the art that we see today. We take a multitude of mediums and place them together to create things that may have already been constructed in the past, but reconstruct them now using different materials and placed in a different areas, only to give them new meaning by doing so.
We live in place now where displacement is part of our everyday life. Where what was at one time thought to be risky seems increasingly normal. This curvature of ideals and ratios may not be what was intended nor what was expected, but through the natural progression it is where we have arrived. But in no way does that mean this is where we shall stay.
At one point Duchamp, as seen below, thought that what he was doing as he painted was what his artistry was, but at a certain place there was a shift.... in thought perhaps, but it is questionable what really shifted.
His Mind? or His Ideals?
"How does an image become a sign?"
An image is already a sign, it is a visual sign that stands for something, anything, such as these works. They are signs for communicating what I'm thinking. Like the letter A. "A" is a image that becomes a sign a sign for using a sound. It is a symbol that represents three distinct sounds. it can be written many different ways, but in the American language it is always going to be the letter "a" and stand for three sounds.
An image is made up of many different shapes, cubist used these shapes in a very flat way to stand for images that had complex forms.
I believe we are so used to it now because it is what we live breathe and eat, we don't even consider the possibility of it not being a sign.
ANDY WARHOL
At any moment at anytime things could be shifting and they are. They may seem subtle at first but the overall shift that occurred is greater than any of us can imagine.
Pollock
Every move the man made while painting was unplanned, and yet he changed the way we lookt at the world, or at least he did for me
As did Philip Pearlstien
two painters that shifted my way of seeing the world, viewing art understanding light and brush control.... who is to say what is and isn't and image? a sign? a painting? and artist?
I know I'm not.... or am I?
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