Atraction/Repulsion A criticism paper/statement from an art school student discussing the role of attraction and repulsion using examples of sculptors working in the 1970's.

Attraction/ Repulsion I believe that something can be both attractive and repulsive at simultaneous moments. The last fifty years is filled of art that possesses this quality. In the sixties art was challenged again this time by the "anti-form". Minimalism left an unsatisfied need for direct matter. Performance art became a good arena for expression. Carolee Schneeman's Meat Joy (1964) was a performance with half naked figures covered in animal blood rolling around one another. Morris …

…in the piece I am currently working on. "I am distilled shit.... I am the aphasic aphrodisiac.... I am Jesus Christ, madwoman, I am blurred agony.... I am the green yeast in beer.... I am the shiny chair.... I am the yellow book of the sun. I am the white angel. I am the male member dismembered. I am the feeling of the age of darkness." - Michael Tracy (from Aphasic, 1966-68) Amy A. Azorandia