Video and the Conceptual Body

There was a lot of information of artists and critics crammed into this reading and I think my brain is a little on overload. This reading goes through the 20th century with many of the people and ideas of art that has brought us to the present situation that we are facing with art. Several people had to come before us in art history, approaching and thinking about art in a radical manner. These people have created and defined the way we think about art. Art has the ability to be anything, but because it it everything, it is nothing. Although this reading could be seen and understood as a source for inspiration and historical information to developing artists, I think that it is a really intimidating to look at what has come before you in art history. Because we have knowledge of the past, we are inherently compared to it.