Artist-Final Flashcards
Marina Abramovic 1
Rhythm 5, 1974, Performance, her body at the mercy of the situation, stretches spread eagle in the star, she passed out from the smoke and audience had to save her
Ilya Kabakov
The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, 10 Characters, 1988, installation
Boris Mikhailov
Case History, 1997-98, photography, socialist realism, how things shifted in the post-soviet world, life-sized photos that match your size
Mladen Stilinovic´
Exploitation of the Dead, 1984-90, mixed media, uses red and black for communism and uses miniature representation to render them meaningless
Lygia Clark
Bichos (Critters), 1960 and Bicho de bolso (Pocket Critter), 1966, Dimensions and medium variable, sculptures you can fold, something permanent into something moveable
Hélio Oiticica
Parangolés, 1964, mixed media, habitable paintings, wear them while dancing the samba
Lygia Pape
O Ovo (The Egg), 1967, performance, rebirth
Leon Ferrari
Western and Christian Civilization, 1965, polyester, wood, cardboard, criticizes political and social cultures, an attack on Christianity and militarism, the Christ doens’t symbolize eternal life but harbinger and imminent death
Gloria Camiruaga
Popsicles, 1982-84, performance and video
Tania Bruguera
The Burden of Guilt, 1997-99, performance for decapitated lamb, rope, water, salt, Cuban soil, she wears the lamb and eats dirt, indigenous and religious strategy, protests censorship
Asco
Spray Paint LACMA, 1972, documentation of actions, spray painted names on the museum to claim it as their own
Sam Nhlengethwa
It left him cold– The Death of Steve Biko, 1990, collage, pencil, and charcoal on paper, about apartheid, massive head because it’s his head that we lost
William Kentridge
Drawing for II Sole 24 Ore [World Walking], 2007, mixed media on paper
Wang Guangyi
Great Criticism– Coca Cola, 1994, oil on canvas
Xu Bing
Book From the Sky, 1986-89, installation
Ramingining Artists
The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987-88, installation of 200 hollow log bone coffins, natural pigments on wood, about colonialism, you have to walk through it
Uta Uta Tjangala
Yumari, 1981, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Emily Kane Kngwarreye
Earth’s Creation, 1993, acrylic on canvas, it’s not exactly the world but a reflection of it
Imants Tillers
The Nine Shots, 1985, Synthetic polymer paint and oil stick
Gordon Bennett
Notes to Basquiat (Jackson Pollack and his other), 2001, acrylic on canvas
Andy Goldsworthy
Reconstructed Icicles/around a tree, 1995, Ice
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Victorian Philanthropist’s Parlor, 1996-97, reproduction furniture, fire screen, carpet, props, Dutch wax printed cotton textile
Tracey Rose
Span I and Span II, 1997, performance and mixed media installation
El Anatsui
Fresh and Fading Memories Part I-IV, 2007, installation with bottle caps and wire, in three angles, you can see the cloth, the printing plates come from Pittsburgh and symbolize industry of the city, the mirrors give you an open future, the two sculptures are separate in an open-ended fashion, the cloth is worn with tears due to time
Shirin Neshat
Fervor, 2000, Gelatin silver prints, gender binaries
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Reading for Male and Female Corpses, 2001, video
Navjot Atlaf
Nalpar Project, 2001, water pump project
Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison
Peninsula Europe as a Center of a World, 2001, installation
Hans Haacke
Der Bevölkerung, 1999-2000 and ongoing, northern interior courtyard, Reichtag, Berlin
Thomas Hirschhorn
Bataille Monument, 2002, installation
Julie Mehrtu
Stadia_II, 2004, ink and acrylic on canvas
Thomas McIntosh with Mikko Hynninen and Emmanuel Madan
Ondulation, 2002, installation, waves on water
Pierre Huyghe
The Third Memory, 2000, double project film, the artist takes a film from 1975 and reconstructs the scene with his own editing, time shifts between past and present
Josephine Meckseper
The Complete History of Postcontemporary Art, 2005, installation, like you’re looking in a shop window
Blast Theory
Day of the Figurines, 2005-6, SMS-text messaging game and installation
Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, et. al.
T_Visionarium II, 2006, interactive environment
Marina Abramovic 2
The Artist is Present, 2012, video
Ai Weiwei
Snake Ceiling, 2009, backpacks
Allan Sekula and Nöel Burch
The Forgotten Space, 2010, film
Christian Marclay
The Clock, 2010, 35mm film, 24 hours
