Painting I / Context and the Conceptual Frame
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Complete the account of the frame.

Brian O'Doherty published the Inside the White Cube essays in Artforum in ______. Arthur Danto argued in 1964 that seeing something as art requires an atmosphere of artistic ______ and a knowledge of the history of art. Bourdieu described a field of cultural ______ in which value is produced by struggle between positions. Miwon Kwon distinguished the physical, the institutional and the ______ senses of site.

Word bank: 1976 · theory · production · discursive · 1986 · practice

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  1. The essays came ten years before the book of the same name.
  2. The last blank names a site that is a debate rather than a place.
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Brian O'Doherty published the Inside the White Cube essays in Artforum in 1976. Arthur Danto argued in 1964 that seeing something as art requires an atmosphere of artistic theory and a knowledge of the history of art. Bourdieu described a field of cultural production in which value is produced by struggle between positions. Miwon Kwon distinguished the physical, the institutional and the discursive senses of site.

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The last blank is the one that changes what site-specific means for a student. A discursive site is an argument a work enters, so a painting can be site-specific to a debate rather than to a building, and can therefore be moved without loss, or destroyed by being shown in the wrong company.

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