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Art, Society and Mass Media Final
Anette Kubitza, Fall '11
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
12/04/2011

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Barbara Kruger: Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981
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Barbara Kruger: Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am), 1990, photolithograph on paper shopping bag
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Sherrie Levine: After Walker Evans # 4, 1981, b/w photograph
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Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still, # 54, 1978, b/w photograph
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Cindy Sherman: Untitled, # 175, 1987 (photograph)
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Wendy Richmond: Public/Privacy: Wendy Richmond’s Surreptitious Cellphone. 2007-2008.
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Hasan M. Elahi: Tracking Transcience, since 2002-present
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Victoria Vesna: Bodies INCorporated, since 1995
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Inez Lamsweerde: Sasja 90-60-90, 1992, duraflex print, computer-generated
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Anthony Aziz/Sammy Cucher: George and Ken from the Dystopia Series, 1994
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Laura Stein: Smile Tomato, 1996, chromogenic color photograph
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Alexis Rockman: The Farm, 2000, oil and acrylic on wood panel
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Bryan Crockett: Ecce Homo Rattus, 2000, marble and epoxy sculpture, 6 feet
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Eduardo Kac: Genesis I, 1999, genetic art installation
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Andres Serrano: Piss Christ, 1987 (cibachrome print)
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Breast Cancer Fund for San Francisco Outdoor Advertising: “It’s No Secret”, 2000
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Postmodernism
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*Usually referring to new trends in art, architecture and literature since the early 1970s.
*Characterized by eclecticism in style and content.
*Opposed the Modernist preoccupation with purity of form and technique, and aimed to eradicate the divisions between art, popular culture, and the media (“high” and “low”).
*Postmodern artists employ influences from an array of past art movements, mass media, and popular culture in general.
*They embrace diversity and the mix of ideas, media, and forms.
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Deconstrcution
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Deconstructive art is a critical use and interpretation of (existing) texts, as well as artworks, films, advertisements, fashion, political discourse, etc. (Barbara Kruger; Lorna Simpson).
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Appropriation
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The practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image from another context (art history, advertising, mass media) and, either combining this image with text (Barbara Kruger), or presenting it as the artist’s (Sherrie Levine).
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Mimicry
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An accurate imitation of a particular style such as a specific genre of film as in Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills series.
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Bio-cybernetic reproduction
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The combination of computer technology and biological science that makes cloning and genetic engineering possible. In a more extended sense it refers to the new technical media and structures of political economy that are transforming the conditions of all living organisms on this planet.
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