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IDST 127 S24 > Final > Flashcards

Final Flashcards

1
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four F’s

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  1. Form: Art made to be looked at
  2. Function: Art created to be used and lived with
  3. Flow: Art that seeks to foster understanding between people, cultures
  4. Futures: Art that aims to make change or to imagine a different future
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Fountain of Youth

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  • Juan Ponce de Leon
  • Originally looking for longevity
  • Scholars found he was looking for political gain instead
  • History can change understanding of something
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fountains symbolism

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  • Sustenance
  • Infrastructure
  • Power
  • Beauty
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water

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  • essential to life
  • catches light, changes shape, creates patterns
  • not just a substance—it is a realm, a universe, a journey, an adventure
  • controlled by engineering is a symbol of power
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Fountain of the Four Rivers

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  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Nile river
  • Ganges river
  • Danube river
  • River de la plata
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Kara Walker

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  • Fons Americanus
  • fountain based on Victoria Memorial and it’s turned upside down
  • depicts abuses
  • inspired by victoria memorial (across from buckingham)
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Pre-curation / Post-curation

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pre: 15k portraits; post: edmond bellamy

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Margie Soudek

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salt shakers

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Meredith Moore

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made the short film

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Man with a Hoe

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  • Jean-François Millet
  • forged study w Paul Cazot
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Peter Guppy

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  • collector
  • checking a Kazimir Malevich painting
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elements of authenticity

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  • Signature/stamp
  • Composition
  • Medium
  • Style
  • Drawings/documentation
  • Provenance
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provenance

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  • record of ownership of a work of art or an antique
  • guide for authenticity
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connoisseurship

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Love or taste for fine objects of art

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Valentine house

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shonibare put figures wearing dutch wax prints into it

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16
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subversion

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undermining of power and authority of established system

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Adweneasa

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  • most complicated of kente cloths
  • peak of skill
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tradition

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  • “there is no creation w/o tradition”
  • Continuity + Change
  • Repetition + Variation
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Rover Thomas

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  • Natural earth pigments on canvas
  • created paintings on boards in response to natural disaster in Australia
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Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency

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shack, structure made by aboriginal ppl w/o moving into temporary shelter

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Ngurrara

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  • “country”
  • painted by senior traditional owners of the Great Sandy Desert of northern Western Australia
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Mona J. Chuguna and Pijaju Peter Skipper

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For skipper, painting makes wangarr of what is gone and restores mangi

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wangarr

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ghost image of someone

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mangi

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spirit and physical trace of a person

25
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Dreamings

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several aboriginal pieces

26
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Gunybi Ganambarr

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  • Aboriginal descent artist
  • Using non-traditional mediums
  • Yolgnu culture
27
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Mahmoud Darwish

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painted for the refugee crises of the ppl who were drowning

28
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Bahia Shebab

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  • multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on interaction and intersection of modern identity and ancient cultural heritage
  • believes art should be employed for social change
29
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Ledger drawing

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  • narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth
  • predominantly practiced by Plains Indian
30
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Chris Pappan

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  • Ledger artist
  • believes that native ppl can hold themselves to a higher standard and fight for existence in these lands
31
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Agency

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having autonomy over art

32
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returning the gaze

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looking at smth from a certain perspective

33
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Caryatid

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human figure holding something up

34
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Warp and weft

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go different ways

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Asafo flags

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  • Applique cotton flags from ghana
  • ex. Despite the size of the elephant, it is the antelope that receives the stool
36
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Camara laye

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  • guinean write wrote story about boy’s initiation
  • memoir
  • boy needed to get initiated and he was scared bc he didn’t know if the diara was a beast or a man
  • happened under bombax tree
37
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Kondén diara

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lion that eats little boys

38
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Vignette

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design page within a book

39
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Grafting

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like collaging but in the biological world

40
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3 windows

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  1. Black Boy’s Window (David Hammons, 1968)
  2. Black Girls’ Window (Betye Saar, 1969)
  3. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison, 1970)
41
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Betye Saar quotes

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  • What’s the difference
  • Feelings are the goal
  • Death is at the center of everything
  • Seduce the viewer
42
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Betye Saar

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  • uses assemblage in autobiographical way
  • creativity tied to being a mother
  • flea markets for materials
  • works with time (clocks)
43
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Seductive transformation

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turning a found object or image into art assemblage

44
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Bese saka

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power and unity daisy adinkra symbol

45
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Feelings quotes

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  • Saar: Feelings are the goal
  • Harrison: I want you to feel something
46
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Counter-monument against fascism

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Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz

47
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Sukkot rules

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  • Frame: 2.5+ walls, stable but not permanent
  • Roof: organic, semi-permeable material, see the stars, feel the rain
48
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creative expression of sukkot in lives of these ppl

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  • Construction - aligns builders w tradition
  • Decoration - express personal connection to one’s history and values
  • Interpretation of space - prayer gives structure and hope
49
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Vernacular

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What is indigenous, common and shared in a community or region

50
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Schatzkammer

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Vault in tradition of royal treasure room

51
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Wunderkammer

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cabinet of curiosities, cabinet of wonder, related to schatzkammer

52
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Restitution

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returning to its owner

53
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Elsewhere museum

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Sylvia gray and george scheer bought building and had army surplus business

54
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Museum anthropology

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looks at how material culture is displayed and portrayed in museums and the purpose and police of museums

55
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Jacob Riis

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photographed how the other half lives

56
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Ruth abram

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social activist who opened Historic House Museum alongside Anita Jacobson, preserved the historical physical fabric because they saw it as an “urban time capsule”

57
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Josephine Baldizzi

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daughter of rosaria baldizzi who kept the room v tidy in tenement apartments

58
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New museology approach

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new way to approach museums: having an experience

59
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Stabilized ruin

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tenement museum bc as its used, its being run down, but ppl try to conserve it

IDST 127 S24 (5 decks)

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