Postwar Women Artists Transcript

Artists on Art Audio Transcript

Intro: montage of interview excerpts overlapping, with music

HOCKNEY: If your eyes are still, you’re dead! 

Revolution and Rebellion: Political Activism in 20th-Century Art Transcript

Intro: Sound collage taken from the interviews below. 

NARRATOR: Welcome to our audio tour about modern art made after 1950. This tour is about revolution and rebellion. We’ll look at how artists have defied convention and embraced political change and their own role in advancing it. There is no neat narrative here, but there are some incredible stories.

In 1987, Xu Bing completed his master of fine arts degree in printmaking, and presented the woodblock print piece Five Series of Repetition as his thesis project. The series showed the evolution of carved wood blocks over time, starting with prints of uncut woodblocks, and finishing with prints where nearly all of the wood had been carved away. In this printing, we see a midway point in the series, in which the carved scenes of farmland are fully etched, their forms not yet chipped away.

© Xu Bing Studio, photo: LACMA