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Allan Kaprow at 18 Happenings (1959)

Happening Artist in 1950’s

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Arman, Le Plein (1960)

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John Baldessari, From The Commissioned Paintings (1969-70)

Conceptual Artist

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Joseph Beuys, Coyote I Like America and America Likes Me (1974)

Fluxus Artist

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Joseph Beuys, Filter Fat Corner (1963)

Fluxis Artist

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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965)

Fluxis Artist

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Joseph Beuys, The Chief Fluxus Chant (1963-4)

Fluxus Artist

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Bruce Conner, Black Dahlia (1960)

Assemblage Artist, Midwest 1950’s-60’s movement

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Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Live and Die (1984)

Conceptual Artist

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Carl Andre, Herm (1971)

Minimalist Artist in the 1960’s

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Carl Andre, Copper Ribbon (1969)

Minimalist Artist in the 1960’s

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Daniel Spoerri, Lunch (1972)

Fluxus Artist

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David Hockney, Sunbather (1966)

Pop Artist

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Ed Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966)

Pop Artist

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Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Amarillo Texas (1963)

Pop Artist

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Flavin, monument 4 those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death) (1966)

Minimalist Artist, Neon Light Tubes signature to Flavin

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Fluxkits (1964-5)

Kits produced by Fluxis Artists at Flux Festivals and distributed to the common people

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Hains, Poster in Yiddish (1950)

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Jay De Feo, The Rose (1958-66)

Assemblage Artist, West Coast movement

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John Chamberlain, Velvet White (1962)

Assemblage Artist, West Coast Movement

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Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) (1960)

Pop Art Inspiration

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Donald Judd, Untitled (1963)

Minimalist Artist

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Donald Judd, Untitled (1966)

Minimalist Artist

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Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (1960)

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Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965)

Conceptual Artist

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Sol LeWitt, Serial Project No. 1 (ABCD) (1966)

Minimalist Artist

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Roy Lichtenstein, Blam (1962)

Pop Artist

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Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl (1963)

Pop Artist

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Lousie Nevelson, Dawns Wedding Chapel II (1959)

Assemblage Artist

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Robert Morris, Mirrored Cubes (1965)

Minimalist Artist

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Robert Morris, Statement of Aesthetic Withdrawal (1963)

Minimalist Artist

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Robert Morris, Untitled (Box for Standing) (1961)

Minimalist Artist

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Nam June Paik, Magnet TV (1965)

Fluxus Artist

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Nam June Paik, Zen for Head (1962)

Fluxus Artist

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Claes Oldenburg, Giant Soft Fan (1966-7)

Happening Artist

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Claes Oldenburg, The Street (1960)

Happening Artist

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Claes Oldenburg, Worlds Fair II from Ray Gun Theater (1962)

Happening Artist

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On Kawara, 4 March 1973 Dakar (1973)

Conceptual Artist

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Oppenheim, Object (1936)

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Richard Hamilton, $he (1958-61)

Pop artist, also part of the This Is Tomorrow team

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Shigeko Kubota, Vagina Painting (4 July 1965)

Fluxus Artist

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This Is Tomorrow-poster (1956)

Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1956. Group of artists include Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Allison and Peter Smithson

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Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #28 (1964)

Pop Artist

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Andy Warhol, Big Electric Chair (1967)

Pop Artist

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Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes (1964)

Pop Artist, piece was argued about in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981) by Arthur Danto, claims Brillo Boxes are not art because Warhol does nothing to change them

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Andy Warhol, Cow Wallpaper (1966)

Pop Artist

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Andy Warhol, Do It Yourself (Flowers) (1962)

Pop Artist

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Andy Warhol, Empire (1964)

Pop Artist, Single Documentary shot of the Empire State Building for 8 hours and 5 minutes.

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Andy Warhol, Portrait of Beuys

Pop Artist

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Andy Warhol, Sixteen Jackies (1964)

Pop Artist, 2 arguements to Warhol’s Work: Simulacrum (only refering to the work and not the actual person or thing), and Referential (Warhol is making a commentary on the things he is depicting)

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Andy Warhol, Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1964)

Pop Artist, New York Word’s Fair

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Andy Warhol, White Burning Car III (1963)

Pop Artist

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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (1965)

Fluxus Artist

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Yoko Ono, Smoke Painting (1961)

Fluxus Artist

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Yves Klein, Leap into the Void (1960)

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1936

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Walter Benjamin’s Work of Art Essay

  • First person to say that technological reproduction forces us to change our definition of a work of art.
  • Terms, “Dissolution of Aura.”
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1956

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This Is Tomorrow Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London

Venue for the work of the Independent Group (Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alison and Peter Smithson among others)

Fusion of fine art and pop culture

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1962

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Andy Warhol’s first solo exhibition in LA, Campbell’s soup cans

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1965

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Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece

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Readymade

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  • Concept Created by Marcel Duchamp
  • Takes everyday manufactured object and is used in a new way to challenge romanticized ideas about art
  • Most famous example is Duchamp’s Fountain
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Objet Trouve

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  • Literally, “Found Object”
  • Concept born from surrealism
  • Centers around an object that is outmoded and a sign of the past or desire, turning junk into art
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Assemblage

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  • West Coast artist movement in the mid 1950’s and early 1960’s
  • George Herms, Bruce Conner, Jay De Feo, John Chamberlain
  • Turning junk into art

5 KEY POINTS:

  • Kitsch into art
  • The act of assembling the works is thought of as spontaneous
  • Spontanaeity is tied to abstract expressionism, but assemblage artists felt as if they were looking at the “real world”
  • **THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM DUCHAMPS READYMADES. Objects stand in place for people, refer to discarded lives
  • Focused on consumerism, “you are your things”
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Happenings

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  • Late 1950’s, public installations
  • Allan Kaprow, Lucas Samaras, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine among others

4 KEY POINTS

  • Non-narrative, theatrical events extended art into real space and time
  • Chance, spontaneity is key
  • Real life into art through the creation of environments
  • Close to abstract Expressionism, performative aspect
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Beats

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  • Postwar American Counter Culture
  • Associated with the writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs
  • Kerouac On The Road (1951)
  • Ginsberg Howl (1956)
  • Burroughs Naked Lunch

4 KEY POINTS

  • Challenging the distinction between high and low culture
  • All works share an emphasis on uncensored self expression
  • Creativity is expanded though non-rational means (drugs, meditation)
  • Art supercedes the dictates of conventional morality
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Pop Art

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  • Embraces the everyday and the commercial
  • Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist
  • Had historical prescedents in Synthetic Cubism, Dada, Duchamp, and Johns/Rauschenberg
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Fluxus

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  • created by George Maciunas in 1961
  • Artistic “non-movement”
  • Shigeko Kubota, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Nam June Paik, Le Monte Young
  • Anyone could do art through Fluxkits
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Minimalism

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  • Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt
  • Removes any trace of emotion or artistic expression
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Michael Fried

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  • Art and Objecthood* (1967)
  • Critical essay about Minimalism
  • Supports Greenberg’s position, criticizing minimalism for blurring the line between art and non-art
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Faktura

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  • Term in the history of modernism that is central to Russian Constructivism
  • focus on materials and textures, as well as process of construction, an attempt to erase artistic will
  • Viktor Shklovsky, Art as Technique (1917), “The aim of art is to awaken our sensitivity to things, to really see them and not merely to recognize them.”
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Conceptual Art

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  • 1965-1972
  • John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke
  • Abandons the aesthetic process altogether
  • dismantles the idea of transcendental viewing experience
  • Sol LeWitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967), first time term is used

Contemporary Art History (3 decks)

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