Frances Stracey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Stracey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Stracey |
| SIGNATURE | STRACEY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constructed Situations
Myth and the ready-made in David Levinthal's toy stories
The rise, in the 1980s, of what is now labelled appropriation-photography can be understood as the full absorption of the logic of the ready-made into photographic art. Like its Duchampian predecessor, the deployment of the ready-made was used to question the nature of institutionalized art-photography: was art inherent to the photo's medium; was it an auratic attribute of the author; conferred by the institution; or ratified by its consumption? …
The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn
April 01 2006 The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn: Excavations of the Present Frances Stracey Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. She has published in Art History, Oxford Ar…
Pinot-Gallizio's ‘Industrial Painting’
The contention of this article is that the Italian Situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio's experimental practice called ‘Industrial Painting’ offered (and perhaps still offers) an exemplary model of how collective and mechanised forms of mass cultural production can be transformed into a mode of revolutionary life praxis. By ‘revolutionary life praxis’, I understand a project to abolish self-alienation through forms of creative activity or labour,…
Surviving History
It is the contention of this article that the Situationists were keenly aware that conventional forms of historical memorialization risked participating in the reification of everyday life, which they diagnosed as characteristic of a ‘society of the spectacle’ that reduces social relations to their petrified image. Focusing on a particular Situationist book called Mémoires , this article attempts to reconstruct the Situationists’ strategies of se…
Myth and the ready-made in David Levinthal's toy stories
The rise, in the 1980s, of what is now labelled appropriation-photography can be understood as the full absorption of the logic of the ready-made into photographic art. Like its Duchampian predecessor, the deployment of the ready-made was used to question the nature of institutionalized art-photography: was art inherent to the photo's medium; was it an auratic attribute of the author; conferred by the institution; or ratified by its consumption? …
The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn
April 01 2006 The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn: Excavations of the Present Frances Stracey Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. She has published in Art History, Oxford Ar…
Pinot-Gallizio's ‘Industrial Painting’
The contention of this article is that the Italian Situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio's experimental practice called ‘Industrial Painting’ offered (and perhaps still offers) an exemplary model of how collective and mechanised forms of mass cultural production can be transformed into a mode of revolutionary life praxis. By ‘revolutionary life praxis’, I understand a project to abolish self-alienation through forms of creative activity or labour,…
Surviving History
It is the contention of this article that the Situationists were keenly aware that conventional forms of historical memorialization risked participating in the reification of everyday life, which they diagnosed as characteristic of a ‘society of the spectacle’ that reduces social relations to their petrified image. Focusing on a particular Situationist book called Mémoires , this article attempts to reconstruct the Situationists’ strategies of se…
Pinot-Gallizio's ‘Industrial Painting’
The contention of this article is that the Italian Situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio's experimental practice called ‘Industrial Painting’ offered (and perhaps still offers) an exemplary model of how collective and mechanised forms of mass cultural production can be transformed into a mode of revolutionary life praxis. By ‘revolutionary life praxis’, I understand a project to abolish self-alienation through forms of creative activity or labour,…
The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn
April 01 2006 The Caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn: Excavations of the Present Frances Stracey Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Frances Stracey Frances Stracey is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. She has published in Art History, Oxford Ar…
Myth and the ready-made in David Levinthal's toy stories
The rise, in the 1980s, of what is now labelled appropriation-photography can be understood as the full absorption of the logic of the ready-made into photographic art. Like its Duchampian predecessor, the deployment of the ready-made was used to question the nature of institutionalized art-photography: was art inherent to the photo's medium; was it an auratic attribute of the author; conferred by the institution; or ratified by its consumption? …
Constructed Situations
Art (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)