Dennis Oppenheim quotes
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“Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.”
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“Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.”
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“An artist works through exposed wounds.”
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“Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.”
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“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”
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“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”
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“[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.”
-- Dennis Oppenheim
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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