Appropriation and Repetition in the work of Jonathan Monk. Stop me if you think you've heard this one before (original) (raw)

Appropriation and Repetition in the work of Jonathan Monk. Stop me if you think you've heard this one before

TO CONSIDer JONAThAN MONK AS A CONCePTuAL ArTIST IS NOT eNOuGh. In fact, his work is not only a simple appropriation of past methods, but benefits from a distinct, self-referencing component. Processes of conceptual and minimal art are present in all of Monk's work. he takes ideas from the vast artistic panorama of the past and uses the structural confines typical of 1990s artists to produce pieces with the same mental framework but