Identity:
Many new artists want to define and display ourselves as unique lill snowflakes.
personal feelings and sense of individuality of above all.
--- post wwII Jackson Pollak and Mark Rothko Jungian psychology existentialisty philosophy.
Claire Pajaczkowska.
Oposite- James Luna (Native American descent) living body as an artifact.
Lucy R. Lippard.
then collective identity- race gender sexualtiyt.
Magiciens de la Terre 1989/ Whitney Biennial 1993
Pepon Osorio's La Bicicleta
Francis bacon- identity...
chuck lose, alex katz susanna coffey. Lucian Freud, Francisco Clemente, Zhang Xiaogang.
period of time affects how we view ourselves. time relative to self. self inseparable from the exterior.
Carrie Mae Weems- photography
roland barthes Rachelle Whitehead
Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty spivak
essentialism- usually a negative often to resist a claim made about you by someone claiming to speak on your behalf. like feminists resisting as essentialist and claim that women are naturally child-rearers.
