The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 190 - 191

Question 1

The New Breed: Post-Modern Art

Answer 1

• certain attitudes recurred with enough frequency to note as significant
• varied as the subjects, with alternative art forms, like performance art and hybrid genres

Question 2

Appropriation Art: The Art of Recycling

Answer 2

• combined pre-existing images with their own

- or presented the appropriated images as their own

Question 3

Photography-Derived Art: Reruns

Answer 3

• uses photographic images in unexpected combinations to re-interpret history and comment on socio-political issues

Question 4

Kruger: Billboard Barrage

Answer 4

• Barbara Kruger (b. 1945)

- cropped photographic images with text in an impassioned, punchy, feminist art

Question 5

Longo: The City as Cinema

Answer 5

• Robert Longo (b. 1953)
• transforms commercial and cinematic images into high-impact, billboard-sized paintings that project the menace and violence of the city at night

Question 6

Sherman: Costume Melodramas

Answer 6

• Cindy Sherman (b. 1954)

- specialized in fabricated self-portraits