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    The document discusses context and how artists can change the meaning of images by removing them from their original context or combining them with other images or objects. It provides examples of artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Sherrie Levine who used techniques like combining found objects, silkscreening press images, appropriating photographs to recontextualize images.

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    The document discusses context and how artists can change the meaning of images by removing them from their original context or combining them with other images or objects. It provides examples of artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Sherrie Levine who used techniques like combining found objects, silkscreening press images, appropriating photographs to recontextualize images.

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    CONTEXT

    What it Means
    • CONTEXT: “The circumstances that form
    the setting for an event, statement, or idea,
    and in terms of which it can be fully
    understood”. Oxford English Dictionary. See
    Images for example.
    • DECONTEXTUALISE: Considering something
    in isolation from its original context.
    • RECONTEXTUALISE: To change the meaning
    of something by changing its context.
    IMAGE: Left, Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
    (1917) (Image Alfred Stieglitz)
    Right: Trenton Potteries Company ceramic
    urinal (1906) installed at Magic Chef Mansion,
    St Louis USA (Image Adam Aymor and Lucy
    Thompson 2015)
    Combines
    Robert Rauschenberg used many found
    objects in his ‘combine’ works of the 1950s,
    by the 1960s he began experimenting with
    silk screen to use press images directly in his
    compositions.
    • By combining found images their context
    is changed (Recontextualised).

    IMAGE: Left; Robert Rauschenberg


    ‘Retroactive I’ (1963), oil and silkscreen ink
    on canvas
    Combines
    IMAGE:
    Top right; Ralph Morse /Time & Life Pictures
    ‘NASA astronaut’ (1963) Photograph
    Bottom right; Screen capture of John F
    Kennedy in 2nd presidential debate, October
    7 1960
    Repetition
    Andy Warhol, ‘Marilyn Diptych’ (1962) 20th Century Fox, ‘Publicity Still of Marilyn Monroe
    silkscreen on canvas, 205 x 289cm for Niagara’ (1953) Black and White Photograph
    Appropriation Sherrie Levine
    After Egon Schiele (1982)
    Seven prints; edition of 2; 175.26 x 307.4cm (installed as a group) gelatin silver and eleven chromogenic
    Collage and Scaling Up
    James Rosenquist ‘Source for President Elect, 1960- James Rosenquist ‘President Elect, 1960-61’
    61’ (1964) Collage and mixed media 38.8 X 60.5cm (1964) Oil on Masonite, 228cm x 365.8cm
    Dexter Dalwood ‘Kurt Cobain’s Greenhouse’ Dexter Dalwood ‘Study for Kurt Cobain’s
    (2000) Oil on canvas, 214 x 258cm Greenhouse’ (2000) Collaged magazines and
    mixed media, 34 x 38cm
    Sigmar Polke ‘Untitled’ (2003); oil and Showbill for a phantasmagoria performance by
    resin on fabric, 302 x 409cm Paul de Philipsthal, London, 1802

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