Sherrie Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston)

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Sherrie Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston)발음듣기

(jazzy music) Voiceover: We're talking about a Sherrie Levine photograph which is entitled "Untitled" after Edward Weston.발음듣기

Voiceover: Is this really a photograph by Sherrie Levine?발음듣기

Voiceover: Well, it is.발음듣기

She has done something quite astonishing here.발음듣기

She has rephotographed someone else's work, Edward Weston, the great Modernist.발음듣기

Voiceover: If it's a copy of what someone else did, and there's no original thought involved or thinking through things on her part, then what makes this art?발음듣기

Voiceover: Exactly.발음듣기

That's part of the question that I think that's really what she wants to raise to some degree.발음듣기

She's following in the footsteps, you have to say, of someone like Marcel Duchamp who has already introduced the ready-made in the 19- teens, the idea that, what makes a work of art?발음듣기

Is it necessarily about skill?발음듣기

Is it necessarily about making?발음듣기

Or is it about creativity?발음듣기

Or can it also be just about choice?발음듣기

Voiceover: Except that Dechamp sort of said, well, it's not about skill, but he did kind of shift it over to the conceptual; that it was still about choices and ideas.발음듣기

What's the idea here?발음듣기

Voiceover: I think she really is, in many ways, a conceptual artist.발음듣기

She's thinking of hey, well ...발음듣기

This is a photograph of Weston's son, Neil.발음듣기

He is doing something, really flexing his creative muscles here.발음듣기

First of all, he's created the boy. This is his boy.발음듣기

Voiceover: His son.발음듣기

Voiceover: His son, right.발음듣기

So then he's going to use his son as sort of a raw material for his own photograph.발음듣기

Voiceover: He creates him twice.발음듣기

Voiceover: Exactly.발음듣기

For Weston, this is really an image that's in part about possession.발음듣기

He is the master of all things in this image.발음듣기

On the other hand, he's also borrowing, a good degree, from the whole history of the nude, the Classical nude.발음듣기

From this series, some of these look very, very similar to Donatello's young David, for example.발음듣기

He's also inserting himself in, ensconcing himself very much in a tradition.발음듣기

Voiceover: There's a whole kind of Modernist thing going on for Weston; a kind of male artist inserting himself into tradition.발음듣기

It's sort of in this kind of heroic moment of originality and contribution and creativity.발음듣기

Then Sherrie Levine comes along as a woman and copies it.발음듣기

Voiceover: She feels also, I think, very much outside of that tradition.발음듣기

Voiceover: As a woman.발음듣기

Voiceover: As a woman, yeah.발음듣기

A lot of artists, male or female, feel like everything's already been done before and deal with that anxiety.발음듣기

Voiceover: I think our students feel that way a lot.발음듣기

Voiceover: I'm sure they do. I know sometimes when I write I feel that way.발음듣기

Voiceover: Me too!발음듣기

Voiceover: So it's a natural feeling.발음듣기

She takes that by the horns, ultimately, and sort of wrestles it to the ground and ends up doing something that no one had ever done before.발음듣기

Her rephotographing as someone else's photograph was something that no one had ever done before.발음듣기

Important writers had written that photographers had always failed to reproduce exactly another person's photograph, and here she does it, and she does it in a way that seems very simple to us, but in a way it was also something that was ultimately very creative.발음듣기

Voiceover: Does she do it in a particular way?발음듣기

Is she particularly faithful to the original?발음듣기

Voiceover: She does not crop the image.발음듣기

Unless you really are a connoisseur of prints, it would be very hard for you to tell the difference between her photograph and the original.발음듣기

A lot of times she might just photograph out of a catalog rather than standing in front of the actual thing.발음듣기

Voiceover: She also photographed works of other artists, not just photographers.발음듣기

Voiceover: Exactly; and recreates things from paintings into sculpture.발음듣기

It's very much about being influenced and being in the zone of influence.발음듣기

Voiceover: Actually, we live in a world where so little is original anyway.발음듣기

Maybe that's the whole point too.발음듣기

Everything is mass created.발음듣기

Everything is multiples.발음듣기

Voiceover: It's an essential truth.발음듣기

Voiceover: Where is the original anymore?발음듣기

Voiceover: Right. (jazzy music)발음듣기

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