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Offshore Drilling Flashcards

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Made “Offshore Drilling”

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Noah Purifoy

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Born in Snow Hill, Alabama (1971-2004), having lived and worked in LA and the nearby town of Joshua Tree

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Noah Purifoy

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Which child is Purifoy out of

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37238

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Grew up in poverty in a sharecropping family

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Noah Purifoy

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Received a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State Teachers College and a master’s in social work from Atlantic University, before moving West and studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Chouinard Art Institute

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Noah Purifoy

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How did Purifoy begin his career

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With design objects, such as stereo cabinets, beds, & wall decorations

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Why did many West Coast African-American artists start their art careers with design objects

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Galleries weren’t open to showing Black artists

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What did Purifoy co-found

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the Watts Tower Arts Center

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When was the Watts Tower Arts Center founded

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1964

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What was the Watts Tower Arts Center named after

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The independent artwork created in the LA neighborhood of Watts by Simon Rodia

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Made independent artwork in the LA neighborhood of Watts

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Simon Rodia

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Who does the Watts Towers Arts Center provide arts instruction and opportunity for

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members of the Watts community

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The series Purifoy created and exhibited in a traveling exhibition

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junk art

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Purifoy created and exhibited a series of “junk art” sculptures in an exhibition called

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66 Signs of Neon

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The exhibition “66 Signs of Neon” arose as a direct response to

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the August 1965 Watts Rebellion

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A predominantly Black neighborhood located directly south of downtown LA

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Watts

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A period of 6 days in which people of Watts took to the streets following the arrest of an African American man suspected of driving under the influence

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Watts Rebellion

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How many deaths did the Watts Rebellion result in

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34

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How many injuries were resulted from the Watts Rebellion

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More than 1,000

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How many buildings were damaged in the Watts Rebellion

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A thousand

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How many arrests were made in the Watts Rebellion

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4000

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Who did Purifoy worked alongside of to organize an exhibition of assembled sculpture created from the found refuse

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Judson Powell

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What materials did Purifoy and Powell start with for their exhibition

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The lead of melted neon signs and added works by 6 additional artists

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How many artists did Purifoy and Powell use the works of for their exhibition

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6 additional artists

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How many objects were in Purifoy and Powell’s exhibition

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66

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What social message was associated in Purifoy’s and Powell’s exhibition

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Racial discrimination and police violence in communities of color

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When did Purifoy leave his position at the Watts Tower Arts Center

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1966

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What did Purifoy do after leaving his position at the Watts Tower Arts Center

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He left to teach at California colleges and universities, including UCLA; the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Immaculate Heart College in LA

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What did Purifoy transition to in the late 1970s from working as an artist to

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Arts administration as a member of the California Arts Council

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An accomplishment of Purifoy during his decade of service in the California Arts Council

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Programs such as Artists in Social Institutions, which brought art into California’s state prison system

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What did Purifoy transition to in 1989

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Moved to the town of Joshua Tree in California’s Mojave Desert to begin creating outdoor works of art

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How many years did Purifoy spend creating outdoor works of art

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15 years, up until his death

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An environmental issue that “66 Signs of Neon” embodies

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Toxicity of building materials

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Name of the installation of sculptures around Purifoy’s home

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Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

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2 sculptures included in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

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Carousel” and “Bowling Balls I

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The art piece that includes small structures that one can enter and walk around in

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“Carousel”

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A sculpture in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum that is a more conventionally freestanding sculpture

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Bowling Balls I

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All the works in Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum employ found objects like

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bowling balls, cafeteria trays, wire, old tires, televisions and other household appliances, and scrap metal

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2 reasons Junk appealed to Purifoy

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Junk is accessible and it relates to poor people

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What did Purifoy commit to when he decided to move to the Mojave Desert

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Commit to living a life of poverty

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Where were materials incorporated in Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum from

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Joshua Tree and from LA by his friends

42
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What exhibition was “Offshore Drilling” part of

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the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum

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What is “Offshore Drilling” composed of

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A complex tangle of rusted scrap metal that has been bolted and fastened together

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Russian revolutionary

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Vladimir Tatlin

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Postwar Modernist

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Anthony Caro

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What does “Offshore Drilling” draw upon

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Aesthetic language of modern sculpture from Russian revolutionaries like Vladimir Tatlin and post war modernist like Anthony Caro

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“Offshore Drilling” hover in

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air atop 4 metal legs, w/ horizontal appendages that veer off to either side

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How many metal legs are in “Offshore Drilling”

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4

49
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What kind of artwork is “Offshore Drilling”

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abstract artwork

50
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Many rigs populate the water off

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the coast of Southern California

51
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The oil spill in 1969

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Santa Barbara Oil Spill

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About what did “Offshore Drilling” pose questions to

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poverty, oil extraction, and toxicity

53
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The distribution of wealth benefits who

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wealthy communities

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The industrial production and infrastructure furthers pollute and disrupts who

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Poorer communities and their residents

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Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum can be understood as

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Its own miniaturization of a city

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Purifoy’s Outdoor Museum is a city that

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lays bare the inequalities that many actual cities hide by assigning the effects of poverty and pollution to areas and communities that are less visible from the outside

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“Offshore Drilling” is located beside

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Ode to Frank Gehry

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Describe “Ode to Frank Gehry”

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an all-white sculpture that’s suspended on poles

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“Offshore Drilling” points to the ways in which

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environmental racism tends to disappear beneath the surface image of cities

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“Ode to Frank Gehry” is named after

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the prominent LA architect whose buildings define the image of cities not only in Southern California, but all over the world

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Where is Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum located in

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Bilbao, Spain of 1997

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What materials does Gehry used for his later buildings

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Titanium Panels

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Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum if fashioned in

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distinctive titanium panels

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Artwork that Gehry uses titanium panels in

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the Disney Philharmonic in downtown LA

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Gehry’s work became a marker of

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larger-scale urban gentrification

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The disproportionate impact on environmental hazards and pollution on marginalized and minority communities

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Environmental Racism (pg. 65)

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artwork created from discarded or found objects, often with a focus on recycling and repurposing materials

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Junk Art (pg. 63)

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