| In, "The Pedagogy of Space," the art work of Robbert Flick, Robert Smithson, Lewis Baltz, Andreas Gursky, Miles Coolidge, Jeff Wall, Toba Khedoori, Uta Barth, Gregory Crewdson and Thomas Demand are discussed in order to render another understanding of artistic practice that is closely linked to theories of space. These artists, whose work deciphers contemporary social space, are based on visual concerns of social theory. The art works discussed are not analyzed formally, rather they are read as having distinct visual methods of representing space. The text of Henri Lefebvre, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and other various texts provide source material in this analysis of fine art and space including topics on film, architecture, vacant lots, personal history through space, geography, the baroque, distraction, the everyday, habit and territory. |
