{"id":491,"date":"2007-12-07T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/2007\/12\/07\/fact-of-the-day-70\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T11:22:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T11:22:59","slug":"fact-of-the-day-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/fact-of-the-day-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Art e-Facts 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"noblewebster2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/contemporaryartetc.com\/files\/2007\/12\/noblewebster2.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Art or Advert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim Noble and Sue Webster entered the London art scene in the mid-1990s, just as others of the so-called &#8220;Young British Artists&#8221; were attracting increasing attention.<\/p>\n<p>The artists are united by their fascination with the mechanics of the media and advertising industries, and by the notion of the young British artist as celebrity. They employ a wide variety of visual styles, combining and confusing the spectacular and the mundane in a manner best described as consistently inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their most notable pieces are made from piles of rubbish collected from London streets. A light is projected against the pile, and the shadow on the wall creates an entirely different image, typically of the couple themselves: this is not at all apparent from looking directly at the sculpture itself.<\/p>\n<p>The same technique is used in the current advertising campaign for the John Lewis department stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Art or Advert Tim Noble and Sue Webster entered the London art scene in the mid-1990s, just as others of the so-called &#8220;Young British Artists&#8221; were attracting increasing attention. The artists are united by their fascination with the mechanics of the media and advertising industries, and by the notion of the young British artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[528],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-e-facts","tag-webster-noble"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}