Erica- Response 3

I appreciated this reading the most, I think, because of how humorous it was. The author is making fun of art critics while explaining conceptual art to the reader. This article made me understand that conceptual art is more about the thought process behind a piece than it is about the look of the piece itself; I gather this is something the author doesn't think art critics fully understand. This makes conceptual art all the more interesting to me because I think it would be very difficult to get a viewer to follow the same train of thought you had while making a piece. I think it would be near impossible to convey an idea without having some form of explicitly leading the viewer through a portion of the process. Like in the portion of "cornered" we watched where the artist talks to you as if your thoughts were clearly audiable to her and leads you around the idea of her installation. I think this is all extremely clever. The trick is, it seems, to make a viewer contemplate a piece in a certain way without them being fully aware that you are guiding them in that direction. The author here talks about regulating space and making fewer capricious decisions in the making of a piece in order to retain control; when I initially read that part I thought that the product would be boring, but now I realize there is more purpose to that simplification than I had originally noticed.