The author analyses Kenneth Martin’s screen print Chance, Order, Change (Three Colours) (1982) within a concentric schema ranging from the Chance and Order series as a whole to other examples of art and music that deploy aleatoric procedures. The analysis utilizes 14 quotations from Martin’s writings that uniquely specify the structure of the screen print. Within a wider discussion of cubist and constructivist art, the author suggests that artworks of this type negotiate a problematic relationship between functional aesthetics and fields of inquiry concerned with language, action and interpretation of experience. The analysis concludes with an examination of Martin’s Chance and Order project vis-à-vis different philosophies of space and time.
Chance, Change, Choice and Order: A Structural Analysis of a Work by Kenneth Martin
