Discuss each of the following works in terms of the concept of high art. Remember that high artists in the 1960s often deliberately made choices that were intended to collapse either the high art and low art divide, or the art and non-art divide. Each of these works is a work of high art.
What about each of them makes them high art?
Each of these works also has aspects that would not traditionally be considered high art or art at all.
What are these low art or non-art elements?
What choices have the artists made that have the potential to diminish or detract from the high art status or art status of the work?
NOUVEAU REALISME: Arman, Le Plein (Filled Up), 1960. Installation at Iris Clert Gallery, Paris.
FLUXUS: Alison Knowles, #5 Street Piece (1962). Event score for performance.
POP (LA): Edward Ruscha, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963. Oil on canvas.