Notes from the Field: Materiality

A new worldwide mass image culture and a huge jump in the capitalization of artworks helped spur the radical redefinition of the work of art. Fried's antiliteralism hangs onto the immateriality of the work of art (or to a conception of materiality as that which is in motion toward ...), a "thing" harboring an essence. Despite the repressive and isolating doctrines of high modernism, the concerns of "citizenship" (for want of a better word) reasserted themselves; suddenly the "art world" became visible in relation to other social institutions and "systems," which helped enlarge the arena of action. Change the conversation! A "Garage Sale," a messy salesroom of discarded ordinary items . .. why is this array of unworthy objects in the art gallery? Propositions may lurk among the objects of desire and disgust-but where exactly is the work of art? In November 2012 New York 's Museum of Modern Art presented her performance event Meta-Monumental Garage Sale [roslerstudio@earthlink. net, http://www.