Appropriation and Erasure: Mechanic of Deconstruction and Lost.

Project Due Feb 25th

Hank Willis Thomas

"Erasure is never merely a matter of making things disappear: there is always some detritus strewn about in the aftermath, some bruising to the surface from which word or image has been removed, some reminder of the violence done to make the world look new again. Whether rubbed away, crossed out or reinscribed, the rejected entity has a habit of returning, ghostlike: if only in the marks that usurp its place and attest to its passing." -Brian Dillion,The revelation of erasure, Tate Modern 

Art:

Erased Lynching by Ken Gonzalez 
http://www.kengonzalesday.com/projects/erasedlynching/ 

Mishka Henner's erased images: art or insult?
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/may/23/mishka-henner-less-americains

Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer
http://www.visual-editions.com/our-books/tree-of-codes

Mark Kleit
http://www.330art.com/2013/07/blog-post_4072.html

Readings:

ERASURE IN ART:
Destruction, Deconstruction, and Palimpsest.
By Richard Galpin

The revelation of erasure
Brian Dillion
Tate Modern 

Raster Techniques covered:
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