Grahams lecture (Political Art)

Political art is a new genre of art.
Gustave Corbet painting ordinary people relating to political art, this also connects with realism.
Photography is important in political art, in relation to religious art where photography wasnt used or maybe not alowed!

Documentation of postmodern political art:

Hans Haackes work can be deacribed as conceptual photography where he focused on research and representing ( shaplosky). He presents his research in a form of a diagram. His exhibition was cancelled. The way he presented it was not in a beautifull form but just raw data.
Jeremy Deller uses film as a documentry (english civil war part 2) based upon real events and research. He based some of his work on the mineworkers strike (The battle of Orgreave). He was also nominated for the turner prize and won it.
Sejila Kameric looks at creating posters, she uses graffiti written by a dutch soilder on a wall of a barracks in 1994/95.

Dada artists:

John Heartfeild was a communist and made a piece of art called 'the meaning of the Hitler salute'. He did this in an advertising and propaganda way, uses status very well in his advertisments. He also created a piece art using humour called 'Hurrah the butter is finnished' this also looks at Hitler and the germans. Here in this art he is saying that butter will make them fat but steel will make them strong!
Hans Haacke commented on the US presedent, he uses mass media like use of visual language to convey a political message.
Barbara Kruger is one of the first female artist superstar of the early 1980's. The image and text juxtapose works via the abliqueness evident in the use of pronouns such as 'your'. Looks at feminism. She produced a piece of art named 'I shop therefore i am', in the 2000's we can see this in selfridges. These artists are a colaboration between selfridges and kruger, she remained tight lipped about this as its obvious what she gets out of it, money! but its a way of getting art out there.
Sarah Lucas is a feminist artist, she looks at the female artist. She goes against males as a male dominated art world!