Lanzl, Christina A. (2013): Doug and Mike Starn, Doug und Mike Starn: Evolution from photography to public art, Von der Fotografie zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of History and the Arts |
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Doug and Mike Starn: Evolution from Photography to Public Art investigates the pioneering installations and public art by Doug and Mike Starn, establishes their position within the complete oeuvre and examines the confluence of media they have worked in, while situating the artists and their work within the contemporary art historic context. Intrinsic characteristics of the Starn brothers’ work are the principles of interconnectedness, continuity, duality and change, a continuous evolution combined with a stunning ability to reinvent their work, redefining entire art genres in the process. Identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, born in 1961 and included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial at the age of 26, work collaboratively. The primary medium of photography characterizes their early work, evolving in the 1990s to include artist books, large-scale video projections, and installations. Incidentally, their first permanent public art commission is tied to the reconstruction of New York’s infrastructure following the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The goal is to delineate context, process, and significance of the artists’ foray into public art. An analysis and interpretation of artistic production, context, partnerships, process, scale and reception will reveal the transition from stellar gallery production to installation art and exceptional public art. Highlights of the pair’s stellar career include the completion of two important public art projects in New York City in 2008 and 2010, one permanent and one temporary: the permanent public art environment See it split, see it change on the concourse of South Ferry Subway Station at the tip of Manhattan and the temporary, monumental Big Bambú installation on the Metropolitan Museum’s roof garden. These outstanding works were preceded by years of artistic inquiry and development in the genre of photography, whose path the study explores.
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Das Œuvre von Doug und Mike Starn spannt den Bogen von der Fotografie zur Kunst am Bau und zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum. Zwischen diesen Polen bewegt sich die Entwicklung der Künstlerzwillinge, die sich in ihrer Zusammenarbeit mit den Themen Licht, Kontinuität und Vergänglichkeit beschäftigen. Als junge Künstler entwickelten sie groß-formatige, mit Klebeband zusammengesetzte Foto-Collagen, die bereits 1987 zur Beteiligung am Whitney Biennial führten. Zu den Höhepunkten ihres künstlerischen Schaffens gehören zwei wichtige Projekte im öffentlichen Raum mit Standort New York. See it split, see it change (2008) wurde für die South Ferry Transitstation geschaffen und die monumentale, temporäre Installation Big Bambú (2010) war auf dem Dach des Metropolitan Museum of Art installiert. Ersteres Werk ist die umfangreichste Glasinstallation der New Yorker öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe, letzteres die größte Außenausstellung in der Geschichte des Metropolitan Museum. Den bahnbrechenden Arbeiten der Starns gingen zwei Jahrzehnte künstlerischer Entwicklung voraus, deren Zusammenhang mit dem späteren Werk in dieser Studie aufgezeigt wird. Sie steht im Brennpunkt technischer und politischer Umwälzungen, die durch fortschreitende Digitalisierung und den 11. September geprägt sind.
Item Type: | Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich) |
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Keywords: | Doug and Mike Starn, Doug & Mike Starn, Doug + Mike Starn, Evolution from Photography to Public Art, photography, installation, public art, contemporary art, art history, Christina Lanzl, Christina Anna Lanzl, Collaboration, Intermediality, Photography as Leading Medium, Appropriation, Ramparts Café, Tower of David Museum, Jerusalem, Behind Your Eye, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Gravity of Light, Färgfabriken Kunsthalle, 9/11, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit, MTA, South Ferry Subway Station, Public Art Process, Integrating Art with Architecture, Fabrication, Mayer of Munich, Polich Art Works, See it split, see it change, Iconography, Community Art, From One, Two; and From Two,One, Aspen Institute; Conference on Tibetan Arts and Culture, Stage Design, Big Bambú, Big Bambu, Sphere of Influence, Creative Process,Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venice Biennial, Digital Photography |
Subjects: | 700 Arts and recreation 700 Arts and recreation > 770 Photography and photographs |
Faculties: | Faculty of History and the Arts |
Language: | English |
Date of oral examination: | 25. July 2013 |
1. Referee: | Dogramaci, Burcu |
MD5 Checksum of the PDF-file: | c38dfc5f21bc97baad7e3251e53a80a1 |
Signature of the printed copy: | 0001/UMC 21675 |
ID Code: | 16301 |
Deposited On: | 03. Dec 2013 12:45 |
Last Modified: | 24. Oct 2020 00:19 |