EXAM 2 Terms Flashcards
Fluxus
Fluxus: to flow or to change, the continuous flow or change of thing is what a fluxus artist is concerned with.
An international art movement. Improvisational, anti-institutional, often humorous.
Starting point for a fluxus performance was a simple set of instructions that the performer could interpret the way he or she wanted to.
Anti-elitist mindset, wanted to erase the ideas about who could do artwork.
FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS IN ART AND ART HISTORY IN THE 1970S
-political and social things happening at the time include the civil rights movement, birth control, Vietnam War, economic changes, engaged and active student population—protests, etc.
Women struggled a lot even trying to get out into the art market, and strong discouragement to put any type of feminist meaning into their works. In the 60s and 70s some of the most successful women artist were those who worked in the abstract form—
60s and on, begin to see women make art that is more intensely personal.
Women are often credited with reintroducing figural art…moving on from the Greenburgian tradition of removal of the art from the person.
Stepping away from the more traditional mediums, and using things like performance and body art to reference things to do with the body.
Their inquiries affect both men and women. Taking things that were ‘crafts’ and using
-Women had long been the collage makers, the memory keepers. Femmage is an art making method that speaks to non-linear memory.
Lucy Lippard
female art historian and theorist. Wrote a famous essay/article in an art history journal about discrimination against women in the art world. Gross inequity with regards to women being featured in shows, being snubbed after art school. The idea that mothers could not be artists. Women treated as sex objects in the world at large and in the art world. If women could survive she said, they would be pitted against each other.
She said that one of the worst places for discrimination was art school itself.
Womanhouse
project-feminist art program that was proposed in Valencia (U of_) Schapiro and 20 students who were enrolled in her class responded to a question that Schapiro had posed…What would our art look like if we rejected the male established form of art. Experimental environment where women created exhibitions…in making this they had to do a lot of construction stuff that was associated with men. The students had to commit to 8 hours a day to work on it. Advertised only through word of mouth, and had over 10,000 visitors over the course of the 1 month that it was open.
Facture
Making
Anarchictecture
term coined by Gordon Matta Clark for his. Anarchy and architecture. Destruction making art—end of the life of the building.
Turner Prize
given to younger British artists who make names for themselves
Site Specific Art
loses its meaning when removed from the site that it meant to be in.
Conceptual Art
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Femmage
Miriam Schapiro’s word for collage. Combination of feminist art and collage. Tends to refer to things that are made out of fabric.
Simulacrum
Simulacra is plural)—a copy or a facsimile. A standing representation of the original thing. A copy of something that we experience in the real world.
Sign/Signifier and Signified
Signifier—representation via culture of the signified. E.G. cat, kitty, etc.
Relationship between signifier and signified have to be close or it makes no sense.
ii. In post modern art the relationship between the signifier and signified has only a loose relationship—the signified has a loose relationship with its signifier.
iii. Kruger, by using copies, shows that relationships have become strained. You can never actually be who you think you are supposed to be—the media has shaped who you think you should…
Signified
Signified- thing that we know in the real world.
Relationship between signifier and signified have to be close or it makes no sense.
ii. In post modern art the relationship between the signifier and signified has only a loose relationship—the signified has a loose relationship with its signifier.
iii. Kruger, by using copies, shows that relationships have become strained. You can never actually be who you think you are supposed to be—the media has shaped who you think you should…
Signifier
Signifier—representation via culture of the signified. E.G. cat, kitty, etc.
Judith Butler
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