Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the argument about context in the order they appeared.
- Kwon separates the physical, institutional and discursive senses of site
- Haacke prepares a work of documented property holdings for a museum that cancels it
- Fraser delivers a museum tour in character as a work
- Danto argues that art requires an atmosphere of theory the eye cannot supply
- O'Doherty publishes the Inside the White Cube essays in Artforum
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- The philosophical claim comes first and the artists test it afterwards.
- The sorting of the term "site" is the most recent.
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- Danto argues that art requires an atmosphere of theory the eye cannot supply
- Haacke prepares a work of documented property holdings for a museum that cancels it
- O'Doherty publishes the Inside the White Cube essays in Artforum
- Fraser delivers a museum tour in character as a work
- Kwon separates the physical, institutional and discursive senses of site
Why
The order shows a theory being made and then repeatedly tested by people making things. Danto and O'Doherty describe the frame; Haacke and Fraser act inside it and find out what it will tolerate; Kwon, a generation later, sorts out what the word had come to mean after all that.
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