Practice question · True or false
Krauss argued that modernist sculpture had become a negative category, defined as not-architecture and not-landscape.
Hints
- Ask what the monument supplied that modernist sculpture had lost.
- A place, a function and a base.
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True
Why
True, and it follows from what was lost. A monument marks a place and has a function there; modernist sculpture kept neither, and what remained was a definition by exclusion, which is what made the category unable to absorb the practices that arrived in the 1960s.
Practise The Expanded Field
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More questions on The Expanded Field
- Which changes put the traditional category of sculpture under strain?
- Match each practice to the position it occupies in the expanded field.
- How many positions does Krauss's expanded field generate?
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- Arrange these developments in the strain on the category in order.
- Of the four positions in the expanded field, how many are defined by a purely negative pair of terms?
- Krauss argues that the expanded field replaces medium specificity with a relational structure. What does this…