Uses of the Real: Originality, Conditional Objects, Action/Documentation, Contemplation
November 2007 – December 2008
Uses of the Real: Originality, Conditional Objects, Action/Documentation, Contemplation
Contemporary art can be baffling. Artists sometimes take objects from the everyday world and transform them into art. What makes an object art? Is it originality, genuineness, authorship or is it context? Museum staff and guest curators selected works from the museum’s permanent collection that provoke the question “What makes it art?”
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Upper Gallery
Funded in part by the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities