Practice question · Estimate
Of the six practices tabled in this lesson, roughly how many leave a durable object that can be conserved in the traditional sense?
Estimate on a scale from 0 practices (0) to all 6 (6).
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- Ask which of them survive without documentation or reinstallation.
- Very few, perhaps one.
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Why
Roughly one, and even that is arguable. The number is the practical measure of the change: a discipline whose conservation methods assume a persisting object has almost nothing to apply them to here, which is why documentation protocols became a research field in their own right.
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More questions on New Artistic Languages
- Most surviving readymades are later replicas, and this troubles almost nobody. Why not?
- Sort each practice by the historian's central problem with it.
- Art history has shifted 'from conservation to documentation' for many post-object practices. What does this…
- Which shifts does the discipline make in response to these practices?
- Complete the account of the new languages.
- Arrange these questions in the order a historian should ask them about a non-object work.
- Match each practice to the conservation response it requires.
- The problems these practices pose are entirely new to art history.