Presentation #1: links and notes

Todd Haynes
Karen Carpenter Story in Barbie dolls
“Superstar”

Repulsion by Roman Polanski

William Klein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_You%2C_Polly_Magoo%3F

Essex Street Market
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/nelson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Family

Gregor Schneider Haus Ur
Gregor Schneider began working on Haus Ur in 1985 at the age of sixteen. The rooms on view here are part of his ever-changing construction and reproduction of the interior of his house in Rheydt, Germany. This work is built within his house and is contained—by a slight scaling down—within the rooms that the work exactly replicates. For this exhibition, a suite of rooms has been carefully cut out and transported to the museum where the artist has reassembled them. Presented as a sculptural environment, Schneider’s work reveals evidence of his various layers of construction, the elaborate process of their making, and the intense materiality involved in re-creating an entire home. Haus ur is a quotation and extension of the original that reveals how an apparently normal and benign space can trap and disorient through illusion and mystery.

http://www.postmedia.net/01/schneider.htm
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/schneider.htm