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Test 3 Art Flashcards

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Wall painting with horses
Chauvet cave France
30000 BC

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Oldest cave paintings
Feature shading modeling and perspective
Most likely a ritual gathering place

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Beaker w ibex, dogs, and birds
Southwest Iran
5000 BC

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Stylized animal forms on ceramics

Symbol of plenty since ibex, birds hounds are associated with the hunt

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Stonehenge
England
2000 BC

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Megalith
Timber side represents transience of life and stone is eternity of ancestral life
Shows that Neolithic peoples were capable of great cooperation

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Worshipers and deities from the abu temple
Iraq
2900 BC

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Temple visitors left a statue of themselves in perpetual prayer
Mesopotamian

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Steel of Hammurabi

1760 BC

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Mesopotamian
Stone carved with laws
Relief sculpture on top shows power of king Hammurabi

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Palette of king narmer
Egypt
3000 BC

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Canon of ideal proportions

Shows power of king

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Queen Nefertiti
Egypt
1365 BC

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Relaxed obsession with ka, move to monotheism

Naturalistic features and relaxed pose

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Large water tank, possibly bathing area
Mohenjo Daro
2600 BC

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Indus Valley civilization

Sophisticated drainage, fired durable bricks

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Torso of a priest king
Mohenjo Daro
Indus River valley
2000 BC

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Symmetrical and detailed representation of a priest king
Closed eyes commemorate subject’s death
Trefoil

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Colossal head
Olmec culture
900 BC

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Portraits of Olmec rulers
Unique head gear
Carved from basalt locates 50 miles away

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Monks Mound
Illinois
Mississippian culture
1150 AD

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Focal point of ritual center, mounds aligned with the sun at equinoxes, warfare played a role in life
Constructed over three centuries using millions of cubic feet of earth

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The toreador
Crete
1500 BC

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Fresco
Acrobatic ritual activity
Light skinned females and dark skinned male
Bull significant from Minotaur myth

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The warrior vase
Mycenae
1200 BC

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Ceramic
Depicts soldiers marching to war
Mycenaeans may have destroyed Minoan culture
Dorians may have destroyed Mycenaeans

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Acropolis
Athens, Greece
400 BC

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Celebration of human strength and power
Parthenon dedicated to Athena goddess of wisdom and war
Elevated site shows power of human engineering

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Nike
Athens, Greece
410 BC

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Relief sculpture
Greek naturalism- Sense of body weight and modeling
Gods are personified, have human strengths and weaknesses
Buckling her sandal
Drapery carving

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Augustus of Primaporta
Roman
20 BC

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Naturalism similar time Greeks
First ruler of Roman Empire
Extended arm shows future aspirations, military uniform shows commander in chief, Cupid claims God-like ancestry

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Arch of Titus
Rome
81 AD

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Triumphal arch with barrel vault
Decoration as propaganda proclaiming glory Titus and Rome
Memorial for Titus

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Great Wall of China
Beijing
200 BC

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Built to discourage nomadic invaders and to connect the Empire
Qin Shihuangdi

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Lady at of Dai with Attendants
China Han dynasty
168 BC

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Painted silk in tomb
Represents conception of the cosmos, underworld at the bottom, earth in the middle, heavens at to
Prosperity due to silk trade route

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The great Stupa
India
150 BC

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Shrine with relics of Buddha
Power in religious virtue
Pilgrims circled it clockwise to be put in harmonious state
Dome symbolizes earth

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The dome of the rock
Jerusalem
680

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Intersection of 3 faiths
Ambulatory
Islamic pilgrimage site

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Santa Costanza
Rome
354

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Mausoleum tomb for costanza
Influenced Christian architecture
Barrel vault and ambulatory

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Hagia Sophia
Istanbul
532

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Visually illustrate power
Pendentives
Standard design for Byzantine churches
Mosaics/ tesserae

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Christ, Deesis mosaic
Hagia Sophia
13th century

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Mosaic/ tesserae
Inside Hagia Sophia
Symbolic and mystical, not natural

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Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Damascus

705

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Mosque, hypostyle space

Community gathering place

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Tile Mosaic Mihrab
Midrasa Imami, Iran
1354

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Calligraphy

Qibla, mihrab

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Sanctuary of the mosque
Cordoba, Spain
786

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Two tiers of arches

Hypostyle- easily expandable

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Giselbertus, Last Judgement
France
1125

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Romanesque
Tympanum
Popular subject
Educate the masses in the Christian message

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Chartres Cathedral
France
1134, 1507

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Rose window
Sense of elevation that is both physical and spiritual
Gothic and Romanesque tower

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Choir of Cologne Cathedral
Germany
13th and 14th centuries

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Gothic

Sense of weightlessness

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Shiva as Lord of the Dance

11th century

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Icon for Hindu temple

Dance of destruction needed to create anew

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The Goddess Durga killing th e buffalo demon
Mashiba
12th century

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Goddess as protector, defeating evil in the world

All powerful being

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Kandarya Mahadeva temple
India
1025

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Towers suggest mountain peaks
Sacred interior space below tallest peak
Garbhagriha

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Head of a king (Oni)
Ice culture, Nigeria
13 th century

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Scarification
Sense of permanence
Emphasize head as home of the spirit

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Bird carved from soapstone
Shona culture
Zimbabwe
1200

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Represent decease Shona rulers
Human features
Crocodile symbol of royalty

36
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Beta Ghiorghis
Zagwe culture
Ethiopia
13th century

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Subtractive carving

Hollowed inside

37
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The Limbourg Brothers
Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
1413

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Example of shift from abstraction to naturalism during the Renaissance
Humans represented as casting shadows
Some perspectival accuracy

38
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Donatello
David
1425

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First life size nude sculpture

Contrapposto

39
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Masaccio
The Tribute Money
1427

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Biblical story of Christ
Near fully realistic representation
Chiaroscuro, consistent singular light source
Atmosphere and linear perspective, vanishing point

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Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
1482

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Divinity of the nude figure

First monumental representation of the nude goddess since ancient times

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Leonardo da Vinci
A scythed Chariot, Armored carC and Pike
1487

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Desire to create machines of war

Demonstrates breadth of his areas of interest

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Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
1503

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Likely a portrait of Florentine bankers wife

Goes beyond physical description- unique ambiguous psychology

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Raphael
The school of Athens
1510

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Most important commission of the time
Fresco to decorate papal apartments - theme is philosophy
Gathering of scientists- Plato and Aristotle aligned with vanishing point
Symmetry and linear perspective

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Durer
Self portrait
1500

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Painted many self portraits- importance of the individual (humanism)
Appears Christ like

45
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Bernini
Colonnade of St Peters cathedral
1657

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Represent embrace of the church

Make Rome magnificent for the greater glory of God and the church

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Bernini
The Cornaro Family in a theater Box
1647

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Dramatic space
Hidden window, divine light
Carved marble spectators view St Teresa

47
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Bernini
The Ecstasy of St Theresa
1647

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Dramatic space
Hidden window, divine light
Carved marble spectators view St Teresa

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Caravaggio
The Calling of St Matthew
1599

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Naturalistic secularized style of his own
Christ has faint halo amidst high contrast of light and dark
Biblical scene in everyday setting
Divine light above Christ

49
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Rembrandt
The Resurrection of Christ
1635

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Uses light for emotional effect
Symbolic of true knowledge
Ignorant Roman soldiers are in darkness, Christ is calm

50
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Van Ruisdael
View of Haarlem from the dunes at Overveen
1679

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View of sky against a large church
Majesty of Gods work seen in landscape
Light and shadow reference to knowledge and ignorance

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Delacroix
Odalisque
1845

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Romantic style, odalisque
Texture of paint to communicate passionate atmosphere
Much more dynamic sensuous pose

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Turner
The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach
1810

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Landscapes on large scales, attention to light
Mist and light are focus
Nature is indifferent to human existence
Depict the sublime

53
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Friedrich
Monk by the Sea
1809

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Terrifying side of sublime- vast dark space
Romanticism
Experiencing Gods power

54
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Goya
Saturn Devouring one of his Sons
1820

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Romanticism
Brutal interpretations of mythological scenes
Time consumes us all
Reflect terror violence and horror

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Courbet
Burial at Ornans
1849

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Realism
Rejected from universal exposition
Panorama of distraction, burial site is pushed upon viewer
Dedicated to represented reality of daily life

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Manet
Luncheon on the Grass
1863

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Realism
Shocked viewers
Inspired from renaissance engraving
Focus on brazen nudity, staring figure
Deliberate rejection of traditional subjects and illusionist depth 
Contempt for the bourgeoise
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Degas
The Glass of Absinthe
1875

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Broad visible paintbrush strokes
Realism
Underbelly of cafe society in Paris (absinthe is banned)
Dazed absent look of the subject (consequence of absinthe)

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Monet
Impression- Sunrise
1872

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Loose brushstrokes
Impressionism
Bright intense hues, synthetic paint
Capture the play of light

59
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Monet
Carnival on the Boulevard des Capucines
1873

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Depicting exhibition space
Impressionism
Loose brushwork captures sensation of the scene

60
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Renoir
Bal du Moulin de la Galette
1876

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Suburban dancers
Impressionism
Figures are friends of the artist
Dappled light

61
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Morisot
Reading
1873

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Leisure
Impressionism
Subject is artists sister
Cart in background is loosely rendered

62
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Bonheur
Plowing in the nivernais
1849

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Response to French Revolution
realism
Virtue of working the land, most famous female artist
Role of artist to value the everyday, low, and ugly

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Braque
Violin and Palette
1909

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Cubism
Curves of violin are flattened and cubes
3D nail meant as playful contrast- reality of painting and world

64
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Picasso
Guitar sheet music and wine glass
1912

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Collage
Cubism
Art engages with realities of the world

65
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Duchamp
LHOOQ
1919

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Challenged tradition
Title is irreverent joke about Mona Lisa
Dada
Readymade

66
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Duchamp
Fountain
1917

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Urinal as readymade
Dada
Is it art?
Interest in ideas over visual products

67
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Dali
The persistence of memory
1931

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Surrealism

Self portrait of dallanscape removed from time, removed for the mind

68
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Rivera
Man controller of the universe
1934

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Influence of politics in art
Mexican government initiated massive building campaign
Controversial- Lenin
Changed locations

69
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Picasso
Guernica
1937

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Greatest political painting
Spanish civil war in 1937
Abstract painting
Dying horse= dreamers creativity
Bull = spain
Lightbulb = new way of seeing
70
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O’keefe
Purple hills near Abiquiu
1935

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Preferred realist approach, popularities my of photography

Formal qualities, organic features of a body

71
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Hopper
Nighthawks
1942

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Emotional isolation of Americans
Simplicity of design
Physical closeness but emotional distance

72
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Al-Hadid
Nollis orders
2012

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Collision of diverse and irreconcilable forms
Human forms into pyramidal structure
Monumental in scale, collapsed in single space, contemporary body trapped in multiple spaces

73
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Durham
Headlights
1983

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Accept multiple identities
Fake Indian artifact
Expose tendency to see things produced by natives as artifacts

74
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Bradley
Indian country today
1996

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Kachina
Commercialization if native tradition
Ever present protective spirits- Mesa looks like kachina

75
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Ai Weiwei
Han dynasty urn with Coca Cola logo
1994

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New global economy, activist
Transform artifacts into vandalism
Cultural and economic values in contemporary society

76
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Nawa
Pixcell-deer #24
2011

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Interface between technology and nature
Transparent glass beads on taxidermists deer
Magnify and distort
Deer is symbol in Japanese cultural traditions

77
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Weems
You became a scientific profile
1995

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African American voice
series of photographs of slaves enlarged and reshot through red lens
Power of camera lens
Give a voice to a subject with none

78
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Weems
A Negroid type
1995

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African American voice
series of photographs of slaves enlarged and reshot through red lens
Power of camera lens
Give a voice to a subject with none

79
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Marshall
Many mansions
1994

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Mediation on African American experienced
Embraces ironies within painting
Public housing projects called gardens but don’t have any
Easter baskets symbolize hope and materialism

80
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Chagoya
Crossing I
1994

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Ironies- psychological border between Mexico and US

Pop art meets indigenous Aztec style

81
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Banksy
Kissing coppers
2005

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Graffiti
Banksy is a pseudonym
Critiquing the art world and the art market

82
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Allora and Calzadilla
Algorithm
2011

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Transform everyday objects into strange and absurd ones
Critique
Atm machine attached to pipe organ

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