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Midterm Flashcards

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Wonder Woman, (1978) Dara Birnbaum video installation

Technology/Transformation

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After Walker Evans 4 (1981), Sherrie Levine, gelatin silver print

Appropriation Art

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Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), Richard Prince, Chromogenic print

Appropriation Art

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Untitled Film Still (#35) (1979), Cindy Sherman, gelatin silver print

Appropriation Art

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Untitled [Art History] (#224) (1990), Cindy Sherman, chromogenic print

Appropriation Art

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Portrai (Futago) (1988), Yasumasa Morimura, digitally reworked photograph

Appropriation Art

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Self-Portrait (After Elizabeth Taylor 2) (1996) Yasumasa Morimura, photograph

Appropriation Art

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Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face (1981), Barbara Kruger, screen print on vinyl

Technology/Transformation Art

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I Shop Therefore I Am (1987), Barbara Kruger, screen print on vinyl

Technology/Transformation Art

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Solo Exhibition, Mary Boone Gallery, NY (1991), Barbara Kruger, photographic installation

Technology/Transformation Art

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The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (1988), Grurrilla Girls, poster

Technology/Transformation Art

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Living: Some days you wake up and immediatly … (1980-82), Jenny Holzer, Bronze

Technology/Transformation Art

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Selections from Truisms (1982), Jenny Holzer, 9 LED signs with blue diodes

Technology/Transformation Art

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Spiral jetty (1969-70), Robert Smithson, land art

Time, Land, and Nature Art

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Ready-Made

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the works of art he made from manufactured objects.

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Appropriation

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intentional barrowing and copying of preexisitng images

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Conceptual Art

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art that has a meaning behind it

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Avant-Garde

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avoring or introducing experimental or unusual ideas

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Kitsch

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art that is tide to money, commodity, mass produced

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Black Mountain College

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learning by doing, emphais on the process, opned for 25 years

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Revetment

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used to protect

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Archieropoeita

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an image made by non human hand which self replicates EX. shroud of turin

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Minimliam

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using the least amount to convey a concept

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Specific Objects

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Donald Judd wrote of a new kind of three-dimensional work that incorporated aspects of painting and sculpture but was neither.

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Phenomenological Experience

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viewer decides what the art is about, they are not told what to think

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Death of the Author

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its an idea that the creator has zero impact on the meaning of a piece

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Tautoloy

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Statement of Fact or Truth the same thing said twice with different words

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Pastiche

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bring many elements together .visual quotation of style

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Elke 1 (1969), Georg Baselitz, oil on canvas

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Elke (1976), Georg Baselitz, oil on canvas

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Besetzungen (Monpelier) [Occupations (Montpelier)’ (1969), Anslem Kiefer photographs on cardboard

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Aschenblum (1983-1997), Anselm Kiefer, Acrylic, emulsion, ash, earth, and sunflower on canvas

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Book with Wings (1992-94), Anslem Kiefer, lead,tin, and steel

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Colour Streaks (1968), Gerhard Richter, oil on canvas

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Ema (Nude on a staircase) (1966), Gerhard Richter, oil on canvas

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October 18, 1977: Funeral (1988), Gerhard Richter, oil on canvas

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Entropy

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gradual decline into disorder

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Ice Sculpture (2001), Andy Goldsworthy, ice & saliva

Time, Land, and Nature Art

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Drawn Stone (2005), Andy Goldsworthy, sandstone

Time, Land, and Nature Art

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Today Series (1965-2014), On Kawara, synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Contemprary/ Conceptual

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New Shelton Wet/Dry Doubledecker (1981), Jeff Koons, Vacuum cleaners, plexiglass, and fluorescent lights

Commodity Sculpture

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Banality

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unoriginal - everyday

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Pink Panther (1988), Jeff Koons, porcelain

Commodity Sculpture

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Large Girl with No Eyes (2001) Julian Schnabel, oil and wax on canvas

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Eternity Now (2015) Sylvie Fleury, Neon Lights

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