A Genealogy

It's interesting the Duchamp's fountain is in this genealogy. I would never peg that piece as a work of community engaged art. In fact I think the point of the work is to be contrary to what the art community was doing at the time. A clear piece of evidence for this is the face that fountain was rejected from every gallery that Duchamp presented it to. Fountain may have been created in 1917 but it was utterly rejected by the art world at the time and wouldn't be presented until the 1960's. I guess maybe what makes Fountain a piece of community  engaged art is the fact that it didn't fit within the meta of art being produced at the time. If that's the case then any work of art that pushes boundaries in the art world should be considered community engaged because it is engaging with the art community itself. It's interesting to have my eyes opened to how engaged most good art is. It feels as if the only works that are worth while are the works that are engaging in some  way with something to help guide it's aesthetic function. Especially interesting is that I am able to see Duchamp's fountain in a slightly different light because of the way it is presented in this slide show. Nowadays Fountain  fits so perfectly  into the cannon of art history, but having it presented within the context of community engaged art allows it to feel fresh and novel. The same goes for the other works presented in this slide show. I wouldn't typically think of Constructivism, Openheim, or Turell as community engaged art forms/artists but having it be presented in this way allows me to see clearly that they are.