The first text, Leo Steinberg “From Other Criteria” was published in 1972, during the postmodernism error. The text explores the changes in viewing art in your typical gallery setting, seeing the work horizontally rather than in an upright position like a human posture. Steinberg mainly focuses on the work of Robert Rauschenberg and quotes from Jasper Johns that “Rauschenberg was the man who in his century had invented the most since Picasso” Steinberg says that he created a new orientation when viewing works. Throughout this text, artists are named who have influenced this massive change in art. For example, Pollock, and Duchamp.

The second text, Richard Serra “From the Yale Lecture” written in 1990, focusing on the meaning of site orientated works and the difference between them and ones which are corporate funded. The text explores how there is a very definitive line between the two. Serra states how site-specific sculpture “has nothing to do with opinion or belief”, suggesting that this is a completely different type of sculpture compared to making something in the studio. He also firmly states how a piece cannot be made in the studio and then moved to be adjusted to a certain site. Serra goes on to outline how corporate-funded sculptures are like “puppet creators”.

Both texts explore two major changes in the timeline of art, from very different angles. Touching on the way we view art in a gallery and the way we create public sculptures, moving away from the norm of simply creating a painting for a gallery and simply creating a sculpture to support and promote in a public space. Yet both seem to have a mechanical sense to them, Rauschenberg starts to bring his work to life by suspending his 3D pieces in a way we would view a painting for example, when an exhibition came up with the theme of “nature in art” to come away from the abstract paintings being created in that time, Rauschenberg submitted a piece of square grass that hung from a wall. The square suggesting a frame and the grass suggesting nature. He thought out of the box and created a piece which still represented the theme but in a very controversial way.