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| Marina Abromavić, Rhythm 0 (1972) |
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"Michael Asher, Installation at the Art Institute of Chicago (1979)
- institutional critique
- how does a sculpture function in its 1800s context instead of its relationship to the facade of the building
- only location changed, not the statue" |
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"Marcel Broodthaers, Musée de l’Art Moderne (1968–1972)
- institutional critique
- showed signifiers of museum, showed no artworks
-revealed how museums impose power on artworks within the museum" |
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"Daniel Buren, Within and Beyond the Frame (1973)
- institutional critique
- made art of commercially produced awning fabric
- inside museum: intellectual meaning
-outside museum: what is its function" |
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party (1974–79)
-second wave (essentialist)
-puts vaginas and the names of important women in history
-originally minimalist but the minimalist movement was misogynistic
-changed her name because she didn't believe in the patriarchal idea of your last name being from your husband or your father |
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Tracey Emin, My Bed (1998)
-raw art
- speaks to her depression
- in the gallery setting, it allows her to look in on her own life in a critical way |
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| VALIE EXPORT, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH Cinema), (1968–71) |
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| VALIE EXPORT, Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969) |
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"Helen Frankenthaler, Canal (1963)- post painterly abstraction (movement started by clement greenberg
- art that recognizes the quality of its medium (flatness)
- soak-stain technique" |
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Andrea Fraser, Little Frank and His Carp (2001)
- the feminization and sexualization of spaces within the museum
- following the instructions of the audio guide, rather literally |
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"Hans Haacke, MoMA Poll (1970)
- institutional critique
- rockefeller was a trustee in the museum, running for president at the time
- not timeless" |
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"Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (1956)
- pop art, connecting collage to real life
- intertwining of societal values and modern life with the art being made" |
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"Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece) (1970)
- post-minimalism
- not autonomous
- uses more organic feeling, handmade processes, ""more feminine""
-dipped rope and string in latex and put it together" |
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Damian Hirst, For the Love of God (2007)
- commercialization of art
- cost him so much to make, sold it for even more
- used real diamonds, real skull |
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Damian Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)
-paid fisherman to get shark that looked dangerous
-looks like it would kill you but can't
- you can't know what death is like because you have not experienced
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Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces (1955)
-combine painting
-viewer is forced to explore relationship between target and faces
-bridges gap between modernism and postmodernism |
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"Jasper Johns, White Flag (1955)
- noted as the inspiration behind minimalism
- intrigued Frank Stella, early minimalist
- 3 canvases, not flat, used waxy paint
- also inspired pop art [use of common symbol from pop culture]" |
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Allen Jones, Chair (1969)
-speaks to the objectification of women
-very controversial because it came out during peak of women's liberation movement
-couldn't tell if it wasn't sexist or an attempt to critiquing women's
-some women pull up and wrecked it |
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"Donald Judd, Untitled (1968)
- minimalism
- ""liminal"" objects, specific object chosen by the artist
- not sculpted
-just about what it is, not autonomous" |
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Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (1994–2000)
- embraced kitsch - "low"
- sold for 58 million dollars
- questions hierarchy of meaning in objects
- celebrates childhood and innocence
- made out of hard material so it won't pop |
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"Barbara Kruger, Picturing “Greatness” (1988)
- institutional critique
- looking at which artists [male] that museums have labelled as being genius" |
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"Louise Lawler, Statue before Painting, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Canova (1982)
- second wave of institutional critique (how the institution frames gender representation)
- symbolizes the horrors of castration but also soothes
-castrates perseus, attacking the wholeness of the male body
- notes how the statue is located at the foregrounds, frames the way we see the museum" |
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"Sherrie Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston, ca. 1925) (1981)
- took picture of edward weston's photograph of his son
-appropriation of work" |
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"Roy Lichtenstein, Big Painting No. 6 (1965)
- postmodernism
- riff on jackson pollock in title and product
- yearning for precision, ""this takes skill""" |
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"Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl (1963) - pop art - recreated comic book picture
-popularized it through appropriation
-gave the look of mass production |
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"Glenn Ligon, Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–3)
- satirical commentary on visual representations of the black male body by robert mapplethorpe
- critiques blackness and black maleness in the white imagination" |
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"Morris Louis, Alpha Pi (1960)
- post painterly abstraction
- exploiting the material (not allowing canvas to be flat)" |
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"Robert Mapplethorpe, Thomas (1987)
- ""mapplethorpe could have been fetishizing the black male body, or showing how he related to gay black men being excluded""
- either way, if mapplethorpe was exploiting or glorifying their body, it places the black male body as something that is a few degrees away from human" |
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"Robert Morris, Untitled (Mirrored Cubes) (1965)
- minimalism
-influenced by changes you experience when you move through them
-simplicity of shapes does not equal simplicity of experience" |
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Takashi Murakami, Flower Matango (2001–6)
- made sculptures based on anime cartoons
-taking things of low culture and moving it into high art |
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"Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950–1) - abstract expressionism (modernism) -colour field - translation: man, heroic and sublime"
-exaggerates use of color
-encourages audience to experience the vastness |
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"Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (1965)
- allowed anyone to come and cut her clothes off
- critiques the way in which society can control the perception and life of a woman" |
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"Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31 (1950)
-abstract expressionism
- action painting
- harold rosenberg (1952)
- canvas holds an event, not a picture
- artist is promoted as a genius" |
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"Robert Rauschenberg, Bed (1955)
- combine painting
- 3D collage
-acting in the gap between art and life
- poked fun at the intimacy that abstract expressionism embodied" |
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"Bridget Riley, Late Morning, (1967–8)
- psychedelic painting to represent the growing hippie movement" |
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"Mark Rothko, Royal Red and Blue (1954)
- ""the autographic gesture"" (monochrome background with colored block
- abstract expressionism (final movement within modernism)
- colour field: color itself is the subject of the painting
- modernism" |
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"Richard Serra, Circuit II (1972–86)
- minimalism
- nothing hidden, transparency of the process
-the room becomes the condition of the piece
-forced to interact with the space
-challenges autonomy and greenberg's ""ideal""
-fried: theatre
-chave: still modernist b/c of its hypermasculine insights" |
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"Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still 21 (1978)
-the pictures generation
- used photos to imitate film stills
-reclamation of the gaze upon women in art" |
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"Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions (1989)
- appropriating one's self in order to form an army
- arming one's self against a fetishizing gaze
-because the subject is turned around, you are denied her identity" |
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"Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970)
- minimalist factors
-simple geometric form
- perspective
- not timeless, not as much precision
- not in a gallery" |
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"Frank Stella, Avicenna (1960)
-minimalism
- wanted to purify the medium
-Greenberg would approve of this
- ""what you see is what what you see""
-environment is a key component" |
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"Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962)
-pop art
-mass production
- expediting the process of creating art for convenience" |
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"Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych (1962)
- pop art
- critiques the power and reverence we have for celebrities, and how dangerous this commercialization is
-questioning the methods of art" |
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"Andy Warhol, Orange Disaster #5 (1963)
- pop art
-desensitization to gruesome images because of how often we see them
- horrible deaths become normal" |
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"Carrie Mae Weems, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995)
- the pictures generation
- took pictures from swiss photographer of american slaves
-reclaiming the gaze on black americans to fight a fetishizing white gaze" |
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"Ai Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds (2010)
- mass production (1600 people)
- accessibility
- the value of work
- the east and west binary" |
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