Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyper Reality focuses on the idea of making the work going on in America today worthy of the history of America in the future. Bruce Conner, the American artist, portrays the idea of American art today creating its own history. In the Carnegie International, Bruce Conner’s work, the Angel series, makes use of entirely unique mediums and ideas, but is using a universally known subject. Bruce Conner is already a part of art history in America, but his work will hold greater significance in the future. Instead of being linked to a universal style or era of art, Bruce Conner’s style is uniquely his own. His style and medium is ever changing, so he can never be linked to one single movement. Instead, Conner’s work will be linked to only himself and through him his work will connect to American art history. The idea is that Bruce Conner is making American art history and in the future his work will be part of American art history, but he is also making use of universal history. His use of angels is wholly a universal subject but his techniques and styles are his own, and therefore part of American art history. Bruce Conner is looking towards the past but is also striving for the future. In a sense, Bruce Conner is using the ideas of “ever forward” and the “backward march” in Eco’s Travels in Hyper Reality (11). He is working towards further revolutionizing art and yet his subject is universally renowned and revered in the past and into the present. The idea of the angel is linked to the past and was a popular subject throughout the history of art.
Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyper Reality. Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1986.
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