413 Finals Study Deck Flashcards
what was artist exploring with these text-based works?
Kosuth (Conceptual)
- king of Conceptual art
- teacher of Group Material
explored w/ text-based works:
- idea of object as irrelevant
- art is language, then text is art
- backing away from materiality
- engagement w/language
- text base, word definitions
what was the concept behind these postcards?
How did it relate to his body?
Kawara (Conceptual)
- archiving the self
- reference to body but simple
- like Fluxes
- conceptual art articulates the merge of artist & the artist’s information
what is this politics behind this work?
Where was this work located?
Haacke (Conceptual/Activist)
- politics? Rockefeller/MOMA donor supported the war & supported Nixon’s Vietnam war, politics reveled to viewer
- located at MOMA
- poll that ?’s & asks viewers for vote on anti-war vs. pro-war
- art is the actual voter placing the ballot
- political activist artist, context, perception not just material
- shifts, moves away from fabricated & materiality of object to something dematerialized
- daddy of conceptual art
what was the action here?
What are some possible meanings of this work?
MattaClark (Conceptual Art)
- action of Splitting/cutting buildings open about to be demolished
- documents the house & process
- artwork was the act of cutting/splitting the bldg
possible meanings:
- proves the idea of what domesticity means,
- rape of domestic space
- a commentary on real-estate & development on urban renewal
what is the concept Simpson is expressing here?
What is she saying about identity?
Simpson (Conceptual, Identity Politics)
- expresses self identity & identity by others
- neo-conceptual art
- notion of the gay
- use of body & adds text
- 2n-3rd wave of feminist
- parallel w/Saars, engagement of stereotype, racism, but more text oriented
- looks at language & self-representation
- like Rosler that uses text vs image
artist calls this?
it consist of?
Smithson (Conceptual, Earthworks)
- called Nonsite
- consists of rocks in a bin
- ?’s how we know a site, through earth samples from a place or abstract representations such as text or maps.
- relationship of the actual site & non-site
- addresses the landscapes excavations & human destruction of ecosystems
how does the location of this work change its appearance?
What does the form of the spiral relate to ?
Smithson (Conceptual, Earth)
- Spiral Jetty
- change bec jetty mimics the crystalline formation of each of its component stones, red bacteria of the waters transform the spiral into a single great organism swollen by blood.
- spiral form relates to? crystalline formations of stones or nebular shell spiral
- earth relation w/human systems collapsed
- symbolic, micro to macro level, like the cosmos
- earth art at the Great Salt lake
what is this cube?
What is the artist’s point?
Nauman, Process/Conceptual
- cube= concrete block
- the artist’s point= thought of space, cast of space of a chair, casting of negative space, viewer can walk around it
- corridor installation
- about sensory data & subjective experience,
- sense of being controlled
- all about phenomenal logical viewer body & space
what is this pile of stuff?
what’s artist looking back to?
Morris (Process Art)
- pile of? thread-waste material scattered, undoing the figure & ground of gallery
- Morris looking back to? undoing the minimalism
- open/ended process
- dematerialize concept
- no narrative, pure idea of incomplete/irrational
what’s this artist doing here?
Medium?
Serra (Process Art)
- creating a sense of tension like in danger, a state of balance, not hanging the artwork
- medium? steel props as materials
what’s she commenting on?
Benglis (Process Art)
- comments on artist Carl Andre perfect minimalist art forms
- pile of shit
- reaction against minimalist restrictive geometrical perfection art
- material? polyurethane
what is this work made of?
What activates it?
De Maria (Earth)
- made of steel post conductors
- activated by lighting/nature.
what was this performance about?
Burden (Body / Performance)
performance was about?
- stamina, perseverance, pushing limits
- body art, performance using his body
- Conceptually driven
- residual object
What is going on in this work?
How the artist use his body to subvert art practices?
Acconci (Body Art)
- concept of trade mark
- uses his own bite as the trade mark
- idea of artist print
why artist call this a sculpture?
what makes it a feminist work?
what other practices was artist known for?
Antin (Feminist)
- sculpture because she is carving/shaping her body by dieting
- mugshots document her weightloss
- feminist because comments on women’s body image/diet/physical appearance
- uses body to make a statement
- similar to minimalism
- other works- “photodocumentation of the king”, performance in neighborhood @ solana beach
In what larger artwork was this installation located?
What themes dis this collaborative address?
Grey (Feminist)
- located @ Women House Project
- 70’s project run by Chicago, in an abandone structure
- lipstick bathroom, stains represent blood
- critiques undervalued women labor & oppresive stereotype
- notion of flesh, confronts unfriendly art world
- biological & social, represented by intimate products marketed to women
What is the work about?
Why is it consider First Wave Feminism?
Why was this piece so controversial?
Chicago & Collaborators (Feminist)
- work about paying tribute to historical women
- First Wave Feminism bec it confronts the tension bet biological/social/psychological aspects of selfhood which characterize most of feminist art movement
- contraversial bec feminine identity & anatomy represented by plates w/vaginal imagery
what was Kruger’s training and how is it evident here? What makes her work Feminist?
Kruger (Feminist)
- graphic designer background
- print & photography combine
- feminine concepts of consuption of sexuality
- feminist context
- critiques western male dominance
- interest in politics of identity, men/women, consumerism
- how we respond to language of advertisement
what issues does this group address?
Guerrilla Girls (Feminist/Activist)
- women rights
- activist group
- attn. to disparaties in Art World
- all about text
this assemblage arwork address?
what was the Black Power movement?
Saar (Identity Politics )
- assemblage art
- confronts the stereotype of passive nanny as militant, defends her new rights
- new image of power & defiance
- Black Power movement grew out of the civil rights movement, proactive force to achieve equality among whites
what themes is he examining here?
What’s the viewer’s role?
Gonzalez-Torres (Identity Politics)
- portrays him & his lover, both died of AIDS
- theme: grief, giving
- process of diminishing
- viewers role: suck/eat the candy, symbolic of gifting a removal of grieving
what is this work displaying?
What kind of space is this?
Green (Identity Politics)
- display of commercial tech gagets
- engage w/info to educate the viewer
- identifies transitory & international nature of cultural products
- circulation of commodities & culture
- space of geographical & conceptual mobility
- hip-hop & funk
- like Haka notion of information system
- archive/collection/archeology of resent past
- similar to Group Material exhibitions
Why does artist use these racist stereotypes in her work?
Walker (Identity Politics)
- psychological & sociological identification
- address stereotype of blacks, ?’s oppressed & oppressive thr narrative/dramatic/purposely offensive sillouttes
- no real clear of us & them
- slave life
- confronts racism
- African American artist
What issue is she addressing in this work?
What other art forms relating to this theme does Ringgold make?
Ringgold (Identity Politics )
- adresses issues of black power movement for equality
- critiques american space & race
- reads “fly to the mom, die Niger”
- other works: paintings, soft sculptures- fabric works for ease of transportation
why is this considered “Appropriation” art?
What’s her point?
What is re-photography?
Levine (Appropiation)
- 2nd generation femenist
- appropiation bec takes famous artworks & repurpose it.
- questions authorship & originality
- re-photography is taking a photograph of a photograph to pay homage to someone
Why is this Appropriation art?
What broader theme is the artists addressing?
Prince (Appropiation)
- appropiation bec has used an Marlboro advertisement & made changes to it
- re-photography
- wants to use commercial language advertisement
- questions originality
what strategies of making their installations are use?
Group Material (Activist)
- display non-high art elements about American culture & questions it
- static display w/a political theme
- interes in politics, gender, DIY, activism
- Fluxes like, but all about the exhibition
- politics inclusion & exclusion in material culture
- works of feminist/ethnic excluded
- all about bringin in political concepts
- collective artwork
- about curation, not the white-cube
what’s the subject of this work?
How was this work interactive?
who was involved in arranging the installation?
Leung (Activist/Conceptual Artist)
- condition of globalization, informational mobility & human migration awareness
- involves Vietnamese immigrant community, Huntington Beach surfers, Vietnam veterans.
- assoc. Vietnam War & Surfing competition in Vietnam
- interactive work of laminated text surfboards of NYtimes articles re Vietnam surfing competion
- idea of Re-colonization thr Tourism
- Relation of space & awareness
- Vietnam as a country & as War
what was the artist’s process in making this work?
Why does the form of the work mean (videos in the form of a cross)?
Hill (Video)
- body art performance & video combine
- records
- quasy-sacrificial of mechanical reproduction
- meant to be seen in video, not performance
- notion of self-sacrifice, endurance, perceverance like Burden
- body, suffering, fracturing explored by video
- video presents body as form of sacrifice
- displayed 5-monitors in points to form cross
what emotions do his heads express?
How is he using technology?
Oursler (Video)
- trauma, melancholy & grief
- uses budu-like doll w/animated face head & video
- combination of living head & a dead body
- video as representational
where does this video seem to be taking place?
What is the effect?
Viola (Video)
- seem to be in the womb like space
- effect of meditation, timelessness
- state of the art equipment
- film installation
- video artist
- interest in body as material
- image projected onto polish granite
- large format screens
- figures inmersed in water, process is slowdown
what are some of the non-traditional sources artist uses?
Pettibon
- installation art
- story board like, layer of drawings/sketches/notes
- sense of studio wall
- large format installation
- informal sketch like quality
- reference pop-culture
- everyday images/objects juxtoposed/overlap
- hard to focus on single image
- expressionist & figure like
