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People/Group Flashcards

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Created the Documerica Project

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EPA

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Did a 3 year project in Minamata, Japan to photograph the effects of mercury poisoning from a local factory

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W. Eugene Smith

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Took close-up photographs of the plastic waste found in dead, decaying birds in the series “Midway”

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Chris Jordan

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Made the series “New Landscapes”

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Yao Lu

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Creates colorful images of polluted rivers and the waste produced from industrial mining

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Edward Burtynsky

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Made “Wheatfield-A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown - With Agnes Denes Standing in the Field”

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Agnes Denes

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Hungarian-born American artist whose practice is based in NYC

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Agnes Denes

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Studied at the New School & Columbian University, beginning their career as a poet before pursuing visual art full-time

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Agnes Denes

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One of the first artists in postwar decades to articulate an explicitly ecological direction for art

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Agnes Denes

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Made “Rice/Tree/Burial”

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Agnes Denes

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Dumped 21,000 tons in Love Canal in the mid-20th century

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Hooker Chemical Company

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What is the Hooker Chemical Company called now

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The Occidental Petroleum Company

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Organized “The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger”

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The Minnesota Museum of Art

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Made “Tree Mountain”

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Agnes Denes

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Who funded Denes for “Tree Mountain”

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The government of Finland

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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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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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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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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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Russian revolutionary

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Vladimir Tatlin

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Postwar Modernist

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Anthony Caro

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The distribution of wealth benefits who

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wealthy communities

26
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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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Born in Calcutta

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Subhankar Banerjee

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Studied electrical engineering in India before moving to the US to complete a master’s degree in physics and computer science at New Mexico State University

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Subhankar Banerjee

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Described Banerjee’s career transition

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Scholar Finis Dunaway

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Campaigned on a pro-drilling platform along with advocated attempted to initiate drilling in the ANWR

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President George W. Bush

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An advocate for President Bush to initiate drilling in the ANWR

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Alaska’s Senator Frank Murkowski

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“Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land” includes tests contributed by

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Environmentalists

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“Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land” caught the attention of

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Curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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held up a copy of Banerjee’s book during the debate

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Senator Barbara Boxer

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Introduced an amendment to block drilling in ANWR

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Senator Barbara Boxer

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Who would have entirely funded the oil and gas lease for the federal government

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Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority

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Issued an executive order to place a moratorium on oil and gas extraction in the ANWR

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President Joe Biden

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Indigenous population that’s dependent on caribou within the ANWR

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Indigenous Gwich’in population

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Opened 1.5 million acres of the ANWR to the oil and gas industry on August 17, 2020

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Department of the Interior

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Made “Marat (Sebastiao), from Pictures of Garbage”

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Vik Muniz

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Made “Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)”

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Vik Muniz

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Made the “Mona Lisa”

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Which Pop artist’s work does Muniz reference with “Double Mona Lisa”, and what kind of work did this artist create featuring the “Mona Lisa”

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Pop artist Andy Warhol, who created a silk-screened side-by-side double portrait of the “Mona Lisa”

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which other contemporary icons did Andy Warhol create portraits of

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Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley

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Made “Action Photo, after Hans Namuth”

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Vik Muniz

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depicted in Hans Namuth’s 1950 documentary photograph

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the postwar American artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio

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Made the series “The Best of Life”

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Vik Muniz

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the initial photograph of before creating “Marat (Sebastião)”

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Tião Santos

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man depicted in “Waste Land” as an organizer among the catadores of Jardim Gramacho

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Tião Santos

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French painter and painting did Muniz reference for the pose of Tião Santos

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Jacques-Louis David’s “Death of Marat” (1793)

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Made the film “Waste Land”

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Lucy Walker

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renowned European artists that Muniz imitate in his series of photographs

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Caravaggio, Goya, Millet, and Picasso

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