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| Three land works by Robert Smithson and the years they were made |
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'Asphalt Rundown', 1969.
'Spiral Jetty', 1970. (Marked site)
'Partially Buried Shed', 1970. (Site construction) |
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| Who made 'A Line Made By Walking' and what year? What category does Rosalind Krauss put it into? |
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| Richard Long, 1972. Marked site. |
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| Who made 'Earth Room' and what year? |
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| What two articles did Rosalind Krauss write and what years? |
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'Sculpture in the Expanded Field', 1979.
'Originality of the Avant Garde', 1986. |
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| What is a sculpture that combines non-landscape and landscape called according to Rosalind Krauss? |
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| What is a sculpture called combining achitecture and landscape according to Rosalind Krauss? |
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| What is a non-architecture and an architecture combined sculpture called, according to Rosalind Krauss? |
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| What was the modern definition of sculpture, according to Rosalind Krauss? |
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| Non-landscape and non-architecture. Also "placeless and self-referential". |
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| What did Krauss say was the reason Richard Long and Robert Smithson's art could not be defined as Modern? |
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| "It had entered a situation in which it could no longer be called 'Modernist'" (according to her diagram). |
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| What makes landart, installations and performance art difficult for galleries and viewers? |
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| Most are large, require the viewer to be there to understand it (according to Claire Bishop, 'But Is It Installation Art?', 2005), too problematic to be sold. |
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| Was in retaliation to academic art, went against ideas of beauty and focussed instead on 'art for arts sake' the purity of colour, line, form. Focussed on the artists own vision and ideas, with innovation being key. |
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| What defines post-modern art? |
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| As a reaction to Modern art and influenced by World War 2 (a 'historic rupture' - Rosalind Krauss). Focussed on making art democratic, less about the artist, pulled away from directness of the artist's hand (e.g. machine prints, mechanical reproduction). Weighted on concept rather than production. |
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| Name two pieces by Marina Abramovic and the year of performance |
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'Rhythm 0', 1974 and
'The Artist is Present', 2010.
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Name a relational artist and their works (dated).
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Rirkrit Tiravanija.
'Untitled (Free)', 1992.
'Untitled', 1995.
'Untitled (Tomorrow is Another Day)', 1997. |
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| What is Relational Art and who coined the term? |
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| Relational art is art which requires the viewer to participate, not as an individual but as a community. There is no art object, just the idea of setting up a micro-topia to encourage positive human interaction. Nicholas Bourriaud. |
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| Which critic disputes the idea of Relational Aesthetics and why? |
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| Claire Bishop. She says in 'Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics', 2004, that Relational Art is not about the community but to 'enhance the status of the curator' having kept the 'laboratory' running over a period of time. |
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| How does does Claire Bishop say Installation art has progressed over time? |
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| It started as a way for an artist to make the viewer aware of their space, to create an 'intense viewer experience' with the viewer's participation determining it's meaning. Since then installations are forever competing to be bigger and more overwhelming which is endorsed by galleries, encouraging works that are a spectacle. |
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| Name an artist who was involved in 'happenings'. Name a peice of work and year it happened. |
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| Allan Kaprow. 'Household Women Licking Jam Off of a Car', 1964. |
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| Name two performances by Joseph Beuys and the year performed. |
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'How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare', 1965.
'I Like America and America Likes Me', 1974. |
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| Name the artist, title and year of work. The installation of a sun in the Turbine Gallery. |
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| Olafur Elaisson, 'The Weather Project', 2003. |
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| Name an artist and their works (and dates) who deals with globalisation using installations? |
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Nam Jun Paik.
'The Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S.', 1995.
'Megatron/Matrix', 1995.
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| How does Rosalind Krauss describe installation art as separated from other arts? |
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| Diverse media divorces it from a medium specific tradition, meaning it can involve any medium. |
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| What is 'Appropriated Art'? |
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| Art that has copied something else, e.g. Pop Art usually uses images from popular culture. |
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| Name two works from Yasamasa Morimura and the year they were made. |
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'Futago', 1988.
'Portrait (Van Gogh)', 1985. |
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| Name the artist who photographed existing photos and reprinted them? What was the original photographer's name? |
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Sherrie Levine.
Walter Evans.
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| What is an argument made against authenticity? By whom? |
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| Walter Benjamin argues that a camera negative is the original and that numerous prints can be made from it, all 'originals' so to argue authenticity is pointless. |
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| Name two appropriation pieces by Jeff Wall. |
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'The Destroyed Room', 1978. (After 'Death of Sardanapalus', Delacroix, 1827.)
'Stereo', 1980. (After Eduard Manet's 'Olympia').
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| Name two works by Pop artist Richard Hamilton and the years they were made. |
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'Just What Makes Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing?', 1956.
'Release', 1972. |
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| Name three works by Andy Warhol and the years they were made. |
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'Campbells Soup Cans', 1962.
'Marilyn Diptych', 1962.
'Brillo Box', 1964. |
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| Who made replications of film stills with herself featured, and the year she made them? |
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| Name two articles written by critic Claire Bishop and the date they were written |
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'Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics', 2004.
'But Is It Installation Art?', 2005. |
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| Where did the term 'Installation' originate? |
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| According to Claire Bishop ('But Is It Installation Art?', 2005) the term orginated from the way photographs were displayed in a gallery being called an installation. |
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| Name some artists and their art (dated) who were concerned with consumerism |
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Richard Hamilton, 'Just What Is It That Makes Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing?', 1956.
Andy Warhol, 'Campbells Soup Cans', 1962.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster, 'Dirty White Trash', 1998.
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